We have got rid of the "Reply" and "Quote" buttons

[Brendan Burgess]

5. Who is the Pope?
6. The Pope is Bishop of Rome and Christ's vicar on earth and the visible Head of the Church.

Now you are quoting stuff which is not there. But you could have done that under the old system as well I suppose.

Brendan

p.s. I am not infallible

 

[Leo]

But you could have done that under the old system as well I suppose.

Yes, was just as easy to manipulate quoted text previously.

 

[ClubMan]

FWIW I like the new arrangement once I got over the loss of the Reply and Quote buttons.

The only gotcha that I've noticed so far is that it's not possible (or maybe just not easy?) to quote a post that contains only a URL (maybe just on mobile?) as when you select it the browser pops up its context menu.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

to quote a post that contains only a URL

Please read the Posting Guidelines.

 

[AlbacoreA]

Buttons are not clutter.

But I guess this how we ended up with touch screens instead of buttons in cars, Tesla with no indicator stalk and reverse is a slider on a screen.

Office ribbon and apps where it's only shows you buttons for where you are, but you don't know where to go without the buttons.

In glass fingerprint sensors on mobile phones which don't work.

But don't quote me on that....

Tbh I have no preference, but it's not consistent with other sites if having a common lexicon is of interest.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Buttons are not clutter.

I doubt that anyone said that they are?

The problem is that when you hit the button it quotes the entire post and this is clutter.

 

[AlbacoreA]

Buttons are not clutter.

But I guess this how we ended up with touch screens instead of buttons in cars, Tesla with no indicator stalk and reverse is a slider on a screen.

Office ribbon and apps where it's only shows you buttons for where you are, but you don't know where to go without the buttons.

In glass fingerprint sensors on mobile phones which don't work.

But don't quote me on that....

Tbh I have no preference, but it's not consistent with other sites if having a common lexicon is of interest

Tbh I have no preference, but it's not consistent with other sites if having a common lexicon is of interest.

Buttons are clutter.

Yippee loving the new ice cream

Office ribbon and apps where it's only shows you buttons for where you are, but you don't know where to go without the buttons.

In glass fingerprint sensors on mobile phones which don't work.

But do quote me on that....

Me apparently

The problem is that when you hit the button it quotes the entire post and this is clutter.

On other forms locking what can be quoted is used to prevent people editing posts to mispresent. Note you can quote as many times you like and edit it.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

On other forms locking what can be quoted is used to prevent people editing posts to mispresent.

This is not a problem on askaboutmoney. You could do it with our without buttons.

Note you can quote as many times you like and edit it.

This is not a problem either. You could do it with or without buttons.