I replied to a message last night and all of a sudden, I was no longer at the point I had been at when I replied, and lost my place. Is there a way to get over this?
I suspect there’s a difference between replying to a post and replying to the thread…that changes where your post appears. Did you find your message and was the time stamp correct on it?
I never found it again and just gave up and left the board.
As a suggestion, you might click on your avatar, click on your user name, then click on activity so you can look at your posts and see if it actually registered. If so, you can click on that particular post and it should take you there so you can see it. I notice sometimes that this nests a reply—poster B replies to poster A but it shows as “1 reply” or something under poster A’s comment, with a V (dropdown arrow). Click and it will show you what poster B wrote, but otherwise it stays “collapsed.”
While there is a “reply” button at the end of each individual post, when you reply your reply goes at the end of the thread.
I’m assuming that this board software allows both tree and timeline views, and in a tree view your reply would be placed directly beneath the post to which you replied. But our readers prefer/are used to timeline, so every new post, regardless of who they are replying to, gets sent to the end.
Kinda quirky, cuz you assume something new would happen based on the new button, but really it works the same way it did on vBulletin.
Only a flat view. The replies feature is only a shortcut to posts that appear in their proper places later downthread. In Discourse, every post always goes at the bottom of the thread.
This, but slightly more. Yes, all replies (with or without a quote) create a new post at the end of the thread, just like in the Before Times.
But replies create, in addition, cross-reference links in both the reply post and the replied post (and in the quote box if there is a quote) – each contains those links to the other. So far, just what GreysonCarlisle wrote.
But in addition, where each post has a reference to the other, you can click on that and it opens a drop-down (or drop-up) showing the other post, right there in place. You also have icons to close those little mini-views.
So, when viewing either a reply post or the replied post, you have the option of viewing the other without losing your current place in the thread. I call that a good, non-intrusive feature that’s nice to have and doesn’t bother anyone who doesn’t care to use it.
I don’t get quotes when I reply.
Which Reply button are you clicking? There’s one at the bottom of each post – This is equivalent to the “Reply with Quote” on the old board. Then there’s the Reply button at the bottom on the whole thread, which just adds a new post to the thread without being a reply to any earlier post. So there’s that for starters.
Then there’s another gotcha: When you click on the Reply at the bottom of a post, the edit window opens but the quoted post isn’t there! Now you have to click on the “speech bubble” icon (the left most thingy on the edit tool bar) and that will import the entire post you are quoting into your new post.
Then there’s YET ANOTHER gotcha: If you are quoting that post in its entirety and the post you are quoting is the immediately previous post, then the Disco-nanny-bot helpfully decides that you don’t need that whole quote there, and when you make the post it automatically deletes it for you! :insert-old-SDMB-face-palm-here:
To avoid that, you must make some change – any change – the text being quoted. I’ve been adding two hyphens to the beginning of the quote (a totally arbitrary choice). Someone else suggested deleting a period at the end or somewhere. GreysonCarlisle suggested typing   (gotta include that semicolon) which is an HTML code for a forced-blank-space, if you can remember all that.
ETA: AND IN FACT, that last gotcha just gotch me! I forgot to edit your quote, and Nanny-Bot-Dearest deleted it!