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Arantor

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Multiquote
« on February 16th, 2013, 08:57 PM »
So I've been looking through my list of mods, and multiquote seems to come up fairly often as a request.

Now before anyone says 'but SMF/Wedge already has this', the answer is 'not really'.

OK, so yes, you can click on a post and have it be pushed to the quick reply. That's fine if quick reply is on and you only want to quote one message. In the first case, that's not really an option because it just redirects you to the full reply, in the second it's awkward - the first time you click, it sends the content to the quick reply, but then pushes you down to the quick reply.

Which brings me to conventional multiquote. The idea is that you click on multiple messages, and it adds them to a list - including across pages of a topic if desired. Then you click on a main button and all of the messages are quoted at once in the post, with appropriate quote tags.


So, how important is this? How often would it be used? Is it worth our time to investigate? I'm mostly inclined to argue that our current implementation is probably 'good enough' but I'm not normally satisfied with things that are merely 'good enough'.
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Re: Multiquote
« Reply #1, on February 16th, 2013, 11:24 PM »
Low importance. I tend to use that (and not fight the system) when it's default, otherwise I'd avoid it. I very much prefer to answer all messages one by one, and then doing post merging as needed.

This feature is also potentially incompatible with a threaded representation of the topic, although it could be solved by shoving the QR button/textarea below every single post, and allowing people to reply multiple posts and then click Submit on any post and the other posts would all be sent at the same time. Sounds a bit crazy, though... I guess it's bed time for me :lol:

Arantor

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Re: Multiquote
« Reply #2, on February 16th, 2013, 11:52 PM »
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Low importance. I tend to use that (and not fight the system) when it's default, otherwise I'd avoid it. I very much prefer to answer all messages one by one, and then doing post merging as needed.
Some SMF people see it as high importance that it functions that way, but I wanted to gauge how our users as a group would see it.
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This feature is also potentially incompatible with a threaded representation of the topic
Quoting posts is potentially incompatible anyway. ;)
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