It would be nice to be able to reply to replies in your messages or notification damn directly from the tab. Instead of having to open the post and find where the reply was. Especially for situations where it is a post with a lot of comments searching for the specific replies little tedious

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    You can, but it’s difficult to find since the last update. To the right of the username at the top of the post there’s an invisible field. If you long press it then the menu at the bottom will show… Somewhere right of username, left of votes.

    The only reason I know is that I tried the app before the update, so I knew it was possible and someone posted about it previously.

    I really hope they fix this soon. Not only is the space saved not worth the hassle but it’s also completely impossible to find, and on longer comments it makes no sense to long press the top to open a menu at the bottom, and long pressing is an insane gesture to use for an invisible field. The same feature is on all regular comments, except that the menu is visible by default.

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    Go ahead and reply to this comment so I have something to reply to myself, then I’ll document the steps you need to reply directly to an inbox reply.

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      Relying so you can document the steps

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        1 year ago

        I can reply… with jerboa.

        Step one Tap reply icon

        Step two Type reply

        Step three Tap the paper plane

        Step four Profit.

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        Okay good, I just wanted to double check that what was in my head was correct.

        Right now if you want to reply from your inbox you long press on the empty space to the right of the person’s username in order to get the action bar underneath to show up.

        Yes, I know, it’s a dumb UI bug/implementation, especially since it’s inconsistent with the general thread behavior of the action bar, and the check box in the settings doesn’t seem to impact its behavior.

        Anyway, once you’ve got the action bar you can reply directly in your inbox with the little conversation bubble in the lower right. You can also go directly to the reply in the post using the link icon to the left-ish. You can mark the message as read using the other conversation looking icon somewhere in between the two I just referenced.

        I’ll come back in here and add screenshots in a second.