Return to message reply after jumping from reply to original message

BTCAlchemist

When one message replies to another message, the user can click the linked message to jump to the original one:

However, this causes the user to lose his position in the chat thread, and finding his way back to the reply can be difficult and time-consuming. Telegram makes this easy by displaying a downward arrow that the user can click to return to the message reply (see below). This linked arrow can track multiple jumps within the same chat thread to help the user climb back down the path they went up. Would Discord be willing to add this feature to save the user time and stress when clicking on linked message replies?

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  • meggi

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  • hhamzaa

    This is already a thing should show up above the text bar jump to original message

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    The jump up to the original message doesn't help when you are trying to follow a conversation as there is no way back.

    It would be better to have an option whereby you can set replies to be next to / grouped with the post you are replying to.

    We were looking at moving a few facebook groups over to discord, but honestly this jumping about for replies is a bit of a deal breaker.

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  • Leyn

    Indeed. We need a jump to reply/replies and also a thread view on the side-bar to see messages replying to the same original post.

    It seems that Discord uses an n-to-n relationship on replies, without transitivity: namely you can have multiple replies to one post, or a reply to a reply, but posts without direct relationship are not linked.

    I guess that grouping all replies, and chain of replies together will allow to define post groups, and therefore a thread view. I found this very useful in Slack and Mattermost, which I would still recommend for professional environments. But many fine communities are already on Discord and on those huge groups, it's common to get a reply after 100 other posts even if it's on the next day; making it crucial to be able to navigate back-and-forth, and/or see both question and reply at the same time.

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  • Lushi Lish

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