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.
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.
Looks like someone should review the user trust levels.
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.
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.
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.
Phones. I pretty much exclusively read and post here on my phone.
Ah, makes sense!
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. 
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.
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.”
Absolutely, sounds like we’re on the same page.
(No pun intended.)
It’s gone again.
Yep I just noticed it missing earlier today on mobile.
I found it under the + sign.
Yep, there it is.
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…)
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!!
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.
Yep. When I use the website, I now always open a new tab and type in the url 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.