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Given that ‘Reply’ operates the same as a single quote, I can understand the change. Probably less than 1% of users ever need to multi-quote, so having them do an extra click is in line with all the old ‘advanced’ functions being hidden.

The edit quote I agree is a frustratingly late arrival.

The initial implementation of React was missing a bunch of functionality (plus had a bunch of bugs). 3 months in, they've just reinstated a way to add multiple quotes. However, they for some reason have hidden it behind a triple dot "options" button where (under normal circumstances) the only option is Add Quote - as many have pointed out, this makes no sense unless you want people to struggle to find it - just add a damn Add Quote button!

However, even when you find how to add quotes, you still can't edit them; seeing as you almost never want to add multiple quotes without trimming them, this makes the React multiquote implementation effectively unusable (on desktop I now just put in manual quote tags and copy and paste; on mobile I usually just don't bother to reply at all).

There are also multiple issues (well, one underlying issue, probably) with handling of "non-standard" quoting usages (e.g. nested quotes).

Honestly - if you want to get a feel for the situation I suggest running in React mode for a while - a lot of functionality is missing, there are many minor issues, and overall it's just "janky", for want of a better word. You just have to accept that around 1 time in 10, something will go wrong while trying to reply to a post, or navigate to your notifications, or...

There's always a balance between clutter and discoverability; given the number of questions I've seen asking "how do I multiquote?", I'd suggest that the balance is wrong in this case.

Currently the reply and quote button works the same way in ST2 unless I’m mistaken here so they could have simply copied the 2 buttons over (rather than further hiding the quote one behind 3 dots) but have them work differently.

So have the Reply button work the way that it does on React then have the quote button work the way that it does on ST2 but have said quote button clear and visible rather than the current implementation where it’s hidden behind 3 dots as you’re getting several users (new and established) asking how to mutliquote/reply.

I say have the reply button work the way it does in react as your given the advantage of specific replies being saved when you reclick reply on the post that you’re trying to respond to.

If this deserves its own thread in relevant forum then be it, feel free to move/copy this.

Edit: fixed grammar.

Reply button should move the text editor to directly underneath the post you are replying to. Therefore, it's intended use is primarily when you wish to reply to just one post, and that purpose has continued on React.

Quote button just adds a quote to the text editor at the bottom of the page (or wherever the text editor happens to be).

Of course, the view source button (the </> one) would solve all of the above problems as you could manually type your multi quotes and curate them as needed. I would find this method quicker than the three dots.

Think we are using this conversation and the general React conversation in similar ways and it's splitting up the feedback. I'm going to close this conversation tomorrow morning so that we can better centralise everything in the React Feedback thread.

Is the linked spreadsheet on the other thread current or should it point to f1645 or ...? Similarly the list of releases seems to have stopped ~6 weeks ago.

Is the linked spreadsheet on the other thread current or should it point to f1645 or ...? Similarly the list of releases seems to have stopped ~6 weeks ago.