Quoting posts changed

Barkin

Agree with all of the above. This latest iteration of quoting 'functionality' is horrendous.

Zanderman

Also agree with all the above. The new 'quote' facility is unfit for purpose.

The whole point is to quote the post - not link to it (desirable but a secondary need). The primary need is to just quote it.

With attribution. Which is essential.

With easy ability to quote or highlight particular parts - also essential.

I now no longer try to read most, as the system opens the original post, in the original part of the thread, thereby removing the context of the post that's quoting it. That makes it useless.

It's a fundamentally flawed 'improvement' which needs to be undone

Grumpy_chap

Has there been a change to the way quoted posts are displayed so we see the whole post and the down arrow is gone, replaced with a "view post" pointer?

Or did I just get a quirk? Maybe the post I quoted was just short enough to display in full?

That is definitely different to the following post from only 20 minutes earlier: