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Maybe we can use the same system we use in chats in topics as well, instead of to replied to link. 👇

@[email protected] said in Show replies as quotes: >I think it would be a good idea to show posts that are in-reply-to as quotes in the reply. Right now, all you see is a tiny "replied to..." on the top. Since NodeBB can interoperate with Lemmy, it can get kind of confusing to follow some threads, as the forum UX presents the discussion as linear, while Lemmy is multi-threaded. Showing the original post as a quote would help with following the discussion.

This gets pretty messy if it's the default behaviour. It's also not in line with standard forum etiquette. I don't think the goal here is to turn nodeBB into "Lemmy, but with a different layout". It's a forum first, with Fediverse interoperability baked in. That means it's carrying 30+ years of forum norms on its shoulders, and those norms are going to find themselves in conflict with Lemmy and Mastodon norms from time to time.

I don't think it shouldn't give way to them.

Besides, there is already a feature for spotlighting replies: