That’s what made it quick. We could just start typing.
I’d maybe understand if there were more than one “quick reply” option to choose from, but it seems there’s just the one. If we’re going to click a button, we might as well always “go advanced.”
(Except, today, just now, I had to click the quick reply button to go advanced. Hrm.)
ETA: The test was whether you can reply by just typing in the box, and hitting the “Post Quick Reply” button. You can, since I just did, so I don’t see this being a real issue here.
By the way, the purpose of requiring an icon be clicked before using quick reply is so that when the board is viewed in threaded conversation mode, the software knows where to put all of the quick reply responses. Ideally, you want the quick replies to be listed under the post being replied to; otherwise, the threaded mode puts the replies out of order and makes it look chaotic.
This was a quick and easy setting, and it wouldn’t have any negative effect on board performance. We can’t promise that about every request, though, which is why we tend to want to wait until Jerry’s finished his work with the board. It just worked out well this time.
Yay. Thanks for fixing that because it was a little annoying previously to click on this box and have nothing happen (not quite enough for me to get off my ass and start a thread, mind).