This forum Reply feature is WACK!

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DUDE…

What on earth is this nonsense?!?

I have never, ever seen a forum where you can be on one problem in a tab and you’re able to reply to a totally different problem in another tab! This took serious effort to write! But who thought it was a good idea?

This is a totally bonkers feature. Again, I know it took serious effort to create, but I have NO IDEA why anyone would want it.

Please let us respond only to the post on the page that we’re on.

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-Chilton

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This forum is using Discourse so unless there’s the ability within the backend to change this functionality it’s not something Webflow has control over. That said, it’s definitely not how I’d expect it to work but it’s a pretty minor inconvenience.

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If you have accidentally navigated away from your original post while editing it in Discourse, there are a few steps you can take to quickly return to your original post and continue editing:

  1. Check your navigation: Make sure you haven’t accidentally navigated away from your original post by clicking on another link or topic in the thread. If you have, simply click on the “Back” button in your browser to return to your original post.
  2. Use the breadcrumbs: Discourse displays a breadcrumb trail at the top of each page that shows the path to your current location. You can use this trail to navigate back to your original post by clicking on the previous breadcrumb items until you reach the topic you want to edit.
  3. Search for your post: If you can’t find your original post through navigation or breadcrumbs, you can try searching for it using the search function in Discourse. Enter a few keywords related to your post title or content, and Discourse will show you the relevant results.
  4. Use the “Find” feature: In some cases, you may have accidentally navigated away from your original post while editing it. To quickly find your original post, you can use the “Find” feature in Discourse. Click on the three dots at the top right corner of the editor, and then select “Find” from the dropdown menu. Type a few keywords related to your post title or content, and Discourse will highlight the relevant text in the topic.

As for Discourse it is used by over 15 million users in tens of thousands of installs.

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Hi Jeff,

I’m using Webflow because I believe that user interface design is important. If I wanted to just use the same thing other people are using, I’d use Wix or WordPress directly.

The number of people forced to use a bad design does not in any way make the design better. This is a very poorly designed system. I’m using that word “design” here because I’m suggesting that someone, somewhere, had to have thought this was a good idea, built it, and implemented it. It is undoubtedly complicated and professionally made. No question about that.

But it is unnecessarily complicated, and still not good.

Consider that the instructions necessary to return to your original post on every other forum I’ve seen, do not exist. Because you can’t make this mistake.

Reddit has 640,000 subreddits. Just ONE of those subreddits has 22.5 million subscribers. There are no instructions for doing this there, because it is impossible. By design.

Facebook has 3.03 billion users. There are no instructions for doing this there, because again it is not possible.

I don’t know of any other website or forum where it is possible to post a reply to a discussion from a different discussion, in the area where you would expect to reply to the first discussion.

-Chilton

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Discourse is an open source project with over 40k stars on Github and you are free to help contribute your expertise to make it better. discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. (github.com)

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LOL No I do not do work for free.

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What Jeff is saying is that Discourse has nothing to do with Webflow. If you want it to work differently, you can join their forums, contribute your expertise and add those features and options. Totally up to you, that’s the beauty of open source.