The Quote Button is Gone - Now we have two Quote Buttons

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For those who are unfamiliar, this is what it USED to look like up till yesterday.

@springonion

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Wtf is that? Never seen it like that¸do you have some kind of extension to reskin sites or something?

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Ok, highlighting text now works, i.e., I get the option to quote it. :grinning:

Yesterday it didn’t work for my phone or my iPad. No app, I just browse to the website.

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No. I googled discourse create new post and pulled it off the offical faq site. The colour isnt the issue.

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If anybody hates this change, you should be going to this link here and saying something.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! fuck! Can’t even roll back upgrades.

:sob:

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Cheers mate :slight_smile: I installed it on Classic, but I can’t see that it did anything?

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Seems to have added this

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Oh I see. So you hit that and paste it in yourself.

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Thanks!

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I tried it, but still miffed that it now takes two steps in what used to be done in one.

What was discourse thinking? Was this like 80% of the entire codebase?

It’s just like every other open source dev. Devs writing for other devs. No thought towards users.

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I would quote you, but I can’t. So if in the future this post makes no sense, please scroll up and spend more time to read through the whole thread to see what I am replying to.

It is cha ges like this that seem like only causelj g each user a minute per post. This adds up to thousands, if jot millions on minutes wated and fucks not given in real conversation. If they wanted to save space on the nav bar, get rid of bold, italics or smiley faces…the quote function is critical to user operation. As well as for context with long form conversations.

Not just an obvious critical mistake, a likely cause of future user die off. Almost seems intentional how dumb this is.

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It’s like they went to the Windows 11 School of Fucking Up Shit.

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Don’t get me fucking started on windows 11…

If there is a proper reason, outside of bar space, let’s hear it. It’s a moronic move unless they point out the financial problems it may be causing? Which I guess is possible. But now it’s a pain in the ass.

At least we aren’t full on subscription service yet :slight_smile:

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Someone made another theme component that will apparently return the old function.

:crossed_fingers:

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Bueno!

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Looks fine on mobile

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Working now, cheers. 10 lashes to the programmer that thought that was a smart move :joy:

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It’s back! It’s a Valentine’s day miracle!

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Were you rage typing? You had every reason to be!

This is again something that I know next to nothing about, so I fully expect to be shot to pieces once more, but here goes anyway! Is there any chance that this could have been a move to discourage people from simply hitting “quote whole post” because it was easier? Maybe if the standard was to quote the whole post (including sometimes photos etc.) this was using up more storage space? It seems that a quote in a post is not simply grabbing the data from the original post every time it is “read”, or displayed for a user, but at the moment of writing a copy is made of it. Because a user or moderator can edit a post, but if the quote was made before the edit, then the quote stays like the original.

Or are we talking such tiny differences in data size that this could never have been a possible motivation?

Anyway, it’s back, and that’s the main thing! Thanks, @Marco, @tempogain, Uncle Tom Cobley and all.

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