# What happened to the quote text speech bubble? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [February 17, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424 "2025-02-17T18:29:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/81 "2025-02-25T00:01:12Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > The default for Discourse is to allow users at higher trust levels to upload images and files. The only people we allow at higher trust levels are mods, admins, and Cecil. So we basically get the behavior that we want as the Discourse default just by the way that we have set up trust levels here. So don’t worry about the button because it won’t work for those of us who aren’t supposed to use it. There’s no problem to fix. Unless it starts working, then I guess someone should report that in Site Feedback. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/82 "2025-02-25T06:44:37Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Unless it starts working, then I guess someone should report that in Site Feedback. It does look like someone was able to upload a text file in a post above. It might be possible to upload other types of files, even if images can’t be uploaded. > [@Pleonast](#): > > Does it work? > > [testing.txt](https://boards.straightdope.com/uploads/short-url/qYqKal0HzCZfuoatD3NT90NIncb.txt) (32 Bytes) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/83 "2025-02-25T11:34:09Z")
Looks like someone should review the [user trust levels.](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-permissions-reference/224824) ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/84 "2025-02-25T23:22:28Z")
Testing the restored full quote button. Edit: okay, that’s weird. This full quote was auto-deleted, as it used to be. But in another thread, it was not. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/85 "2025-02-26T15:01:50Z")
Are you sure the circumstances were identical? For instance, I believe the full-quote purge is only supposed to happen if the quoted post is sequentially immediately before the quoting post. OTOH, I wouldn’t faint away from surprise if this were bugged. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/86 "2025-03-01T16:12:21Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Testing the restored full quote button. > > Edit: okay, that’s weird. This full quote was auto-deleted, as it used to be. But in another thread, it was not. In the past if you quoted the immediately-preceding post, it would display the quote as you drafted your reply but would not include it when you submitted your post. If you quoted a prior post, not the immediately-preceding one (e.g. not the last post in a thread), it would retain the quote when you submitted your reply. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/87 "2025-04-08T14:51:02Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > On my interface, the bar doesn’t even go much more than halfway across the box in which text is typed–so what are they saving space for?! Phones. I pretty much exclusively read and post here on my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/88 "2025-04-08T15:16:43Z")
Ah, makes sense! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/89 "2025-04-08T15:23:52Z")
It’s important to remember that the goodness of the WWW has two very significant corrosive forces working against it. One is enshittification. The other is en-phone-ification. I used to really dislike the idea of apps for phones that were little more than disguised browser front-ends. I now think the opposite. A website should make zero concessions to being “mobile-friendly”. Or at least the non-mobile flavor of it should utterly disregard the mobile design “language”. You want me to use your internet presence on my phone? Make an app for that. You want me to use your internet presence on a real screen with a real keyboard? Don’t make your website mobile-ized. At all. See also this current thread for further examples of my kind of forward thinking. 😉 🤦‍♂️ > [@Grumpy old luddites around here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grumpy-old-luddites-around-here/1016701): > > It seems like there have been an inordinate number of “I’m old, I don’t want to change, and computers are expensive!” posts around here. Even when the computers and software in question are actually quite ancient and the replacements are cheap by nearly any yardstick. When did we get so old and fuddy-duddyish? Everyone knows computers aren’t like toasters; you can’t buy them and expect them to run forever without periodically upgrading the software and hardware. Moaning about $129 MS Offic… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/90 "2025-04-08T18:31:11Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > You want me to use your internet presence on my phone? Make an app for that. You want me to use your internet presence on a real screen with a real keyboard? Don’t make your website mobile-ized. At all. As someone who has designed web sites as a job, you don’t have to compromise. You can make a web version and desktop version of your site. Most modern web sites do. No need to make the desktop site mobile-friendly or vice versa. Discourse does this to an extent; this board is very different on my phone than it is on my PC. You don’t have to compromise one for the other, so I don’t see that as a valid excuse. I think Wikipedia is a great example of a site that has a distinct different look and functionality that works great on mobile and desktop without compromise. (And they give you the option to switch between them manually if you want the other view.) That should be an example of what any site can do if they do it properly. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/91 "2025-04-08T18:43:16Z")
Agreed. I too did web dev, albeit in the very early days of smart mobiles. The issue here is the excuse that Discourse hid the quote bubble on the desktop version of the post input edit control because the bubble didn’t fit on the mobile version. If an accurate story of what happened, that unforgivable incompetence. Or some misguided idea that mobile style should be applied to a 2kx4k pixel display. My rant can be recast as: “If you, the dev team, lack the discipline to leave the entire non-mobile website using the desktop vernacular, then just say no to a mobile version of your website; build an mobile app instead.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/92 "2025-04-08T20:21:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If an accurate story of what happened, that unforgivable incompetence. Absolutely, sounds like we’re on the same page. (No pun intended.) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/93 "2025-07-04T01:40:15Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > The quote bubble icon is gone in the editing window and there is no way to actually _show_ what I am replying to unless I first highlight it and then select Quote. It’s gone again. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/94 "2025-07-04T04:27:09Z")
Yep I just noticed it missing earlier today on mobile. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/95 "2025-07-04T04:46:50Z")
I found it under the + sign. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/96 "2025-07-04T05:12:15Z")
Yep, there it is. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/97 "2025-07-04T20:47:10Z")
It’s dumb to have it under the plus sign instead of where it was, but oh well, at least it’s available. (Why can’t the interface be customized on here to a degree? [Not da Dope’s fault, I know.] Isn’t it 20-frickin’-25? It seems like back in 2008 “widgets” were a thing, and the Web was going to be our sandbox to play in…) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/98 "2025-07-17T14:52:11Z")
I just found this thread because I noticed the quote bubble is gone again. Which I used to use all of the time, because trying to select text using a touchscreen iPhone or iPad is a real pain in the neck. In addition, if I click on the plus sign, nothing happens. So I can’t find the quote bubble there either. This is on an iPad running Safari. The plus sign doesn’t work on my iPad running Firefox or Chrome either. This is a real negative for me. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to select text yesterday to reply to someone, and it kept selecting not enough or too much. It was a real pain. I miss my quote bubble!! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/99 "2025-07-17T15:03:54Z")
I have found that sometimes the plus sign doesn’t expand when I click it. This is on a PC with Win10 and Edge. If I refresh the page suddenly the plus sign works again. You might try that. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/100 "2025-07-17T15:08:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If I refresh the page suddenly the plus sign works again. Yep. When I use the website, I now always open a new tab and type in the url [https://boards.straightdope.com/](https://boards.straightdope.com/) . The code that runs on the page gets bugged after some amount of run time. This is especially true on iOS devices, but I do it on all devices now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424.md?page=6)