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Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
Sat Sep 23, 2023, 02:22 PM Sep 2023

Reply posts seem to group together at some point.

This discussion thread was locked by EarlG (a host of the DU4 Bug Reports forum).

In longer discussions, reply posts seem to stop being 'indented' or to indicate which previous reply the newer reply is replying to.

They all fall into the same column and it is impossible for the reader to know which reply is replying to which previous reply.

I also wonder if, because of this, people are being notified that thier reply has recieved a reply.

I'm using a tablet
With Windows (I think)
Firefox

1 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
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Reply posts seem to group together at some point. (Original Post) Think. Again. Sep 2023 OP
This is how it's always worked on DU3 and will continue to work on DU4 EarlG Sep 2023 #1

EarlG

(23,707 posts)
1. This is how it's always worked on DU3 and will continue to work on DU4
Sun Sep 24, 2023, 12:54 PM
Sep 2023

Unfortunately we can't keep indenting the rely chain indefinitely because at some point it becomes too wide to fit on a screen, so after ten replies in a single chain, replies stop indenting, and instead follow one another vertically without indentation. The vast majority of reply chains on DU do not reach ten replies, so most of the time this is not a problem.

Notifications are not affected, it's merely the way the posts are being displayed on the screen.

Since this is not a bug I'm going to lock this, thanks.

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