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muriel_volestrangler

(102,619 posts)
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 03:50 PM Jan 2024

Is this working as designed? While you're replying to a reply by "X", their post is shown as a "Reply to X"

in the same way that someone replying to themselves is shown when your just viewing DU.

If you reply to an OP, above where you compose your reply, the OP is shown as

muriel_volestrangler (100,664 posts)

Is this working as designed? While you're replying to a reply by "X", their post is shown as a "Reply to X"

etc.

But if you reply to a reply, you see

muriel_volestrangler (100,664 posts) Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #9)
9. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, over 40 years ago:


which makes it look very like the normal view of that post, except that says

muriel_volestrangler (100,664 posts) Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
9. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, over 40 years ago:

which is rather confusing.

Is this on purpose? I can see that it could be, but it can easily be mistaken for a post in which someone had replied to themselves.
2 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
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Is this working as designed? While you're replying to a reply by "X", their post is shown as a "Reply to X" (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2024 OP
You lost me, but I'll kick and hope EarlG sees it. hlthe2b Jan 2024 #1
Try starting a reply to this post by me, and see how it shows what I'm writing now while you're making the reply muriel_volestrangler Jan 2024 #2

muriel_volestrangler

(102,619 posts)
2. Try starting a reply to this post by me, and see how it shows what I'm writing now while you're making the reply
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 05:23 PM
Jan 2024

(there's no need to finish the reply to see this).

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