Questions tagged [chat-reply-snippet]
For posts about the snippet of a chat message shown when replying to it. This feature was added in late July 2025.
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Wrong quoted text in chat when you both reply to a message and ping a user
Steps to reproduce:
Post a message that is not a reply. Use @ and ping a user. The last message of the pinged user should be fairly far away - enough whatever distance in messages triggers the quoted ...
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Chat: Error notification "This message is too long." is almost invisible when replying to message
After recent changes in appearance of Chat, error notification "This message is too long." is almost invisible when replying to any message, is hidden by foreground text "You are ...
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Reply chat messages should consistently show the message being replied to
Chat replies were recently reworked today, and they're inconsistent.
In the first screenshot, the message being replied to is shown above the message. In the below screenshot, however, it doesn't show ...
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Font for the 'new' replies design feels out of place (and is hard to read)
I wish I could make a more 'formal' accessibility request - and I suppose there's good reasons but the new replies feel out of place 'visually' from existing fonts. They also feel a bit.. blurry and ...
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"New" style replies leave mobile chat broken on ios18.5/safari
Strangely - I can't replicate this on my android phone but on ios18.5 on a iphone 16 pro, I get this. It might be a cached version of the test people were complaining about but its a little strange
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Remove unnecessary spacing when chat reply box is absent
The new reply system shows a popup, but reserves the space for it even when not shown:
Here's the space being used:
The following CSS fixes the problem:
#chat:not(:has(+ #input-area #reply-box)) {
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Make the click-to-scroll portion of chat inline reply text have a cursor icon that indicates it's clickable
The new chat reply inline text rendering that goes "replied to <user>'s message: <message>" is clickable to scroll to the message being replied to. Could the cursor icon please ...
starballMod
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Show chat reply inline text smaller or only show on hover of the reply icon
I see that chat replies render differently now.
Could the inline reply text be slightly smaller so it's easier to distinguish from regular message text and skip over when skimming? (I'm referring to ...
starballMod
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Markdown parsing does not occur in the snippet of a chat message shown when replying
It seems that very recently (as in, within the last half-hour) chat replies now show a snippet of the message that you're replying to. However, this snippet does not have any of the normal chat-...
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What's up with the new way of rendering chat replies?
Since today, chat seems to render replies differently, including the original message into the reply:
I can't find any mention of this change anywhere, and no way to turn it off (I think it looks too ...
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