Sometimes I only want to respond to one part of a lengthy post. Usually what I do is hit the button to reply to the post, then hit the quote button (the word balloon) to display the entire post, then I will selectively delete what I don’t want. Which can get tedious at times.
Today I discovered a shortcut. I’m probably the last person to figure it out, but thought I’d share in case someone else finds it helpful.
Instead of hitting the reply button, just select the part of the post you want to quote. Along with the usual cut/copy/paste/select all options, a “quote” button will pop up. Hit that, and it opens a reply box with your selected text already quoted. Pretty slick!
Something I would also like to point out is that if you quote an entire post, Discourse will delete your quote. But if you selectively quote only part of the post, it won’t. That’s a very objective reason to do a partial quote.
I was the other way around. I couldn’t understand why people kept saying Discourse cut off quotes until I quoted one right above mine and - boom- that’s what they are talking about!
Or maybe you could, you know, take the strong hint and not quote the entire thing, since it’s almost never necessary when that post is the one right above yours. I qualified that with “almost” but maybe somebody more pedantic than I can actually think of a reason.