Hi!

Newish to the site and I'm trying to get a hang of some of the features in the forum. I tried to reply to someone on the forum and quote their comment in my reply, but it dd not work. Instead, using quote gave me their quote in a dialogue box and I couldn't add my own words. And hitting new reply took me to a new page and I could no longer see their quote. 

Any tips for this?

You have to type below the quote.  For some reason on my computer, it's easier to stretch the box a little to do so.  Try that.

Ah, there's no ping function or anything like that by replying, so just think of the 'new reply' box as the paper you're writing on, and by clicking 'quote' you copy-paste another persons text onto that paper so you can more easily reply to a specific part of the forum dialogue. But pressing 'post reply' does the exact same thing regardless if you've quoted another user or not. 

For example, if I hit 'quote' now, then the text above remains the same, like this: 

Pattychan Wrote: Hi!

Newish to the site and I'm trying to get a hang of some of the features in the forum. I tried to reply to someone on the forum and quote their comment in my reply, but it dd not work. Instead, using quote gave me their quote in a dialogue box and I couldn't add my own words. And hitting new reply took me to a new page and I could no longer see their quote. 

Any tips for this?

Once quoted, all you have to do is make sure you're writing UNDER the quoted text box, and not inside it. 

I suspect that what happened was that you accidentally clicked the edit post of something you had written, which will lead you to a page where you see your own original reply in a non-editable state for reference, and then if you scroll down you get a box where you can edit it and re-submit, but depending on your device you might not see it at first unless you scroll. That's probably the 'new page' you're talking about. 

Haust Wrote: Once quoted, all you have to do is make sure you're writing UNDER the quoted text box, and not inside it. 

Hi Haust how are you?

Haust Wrote: Once quoted, all you have to do is make sure you're writing UNDER the quoted text box, and not inside it. 

Hi Haust how are you?

Hey man how'd you get in here?

Capaluchu Wrote: You have to type below the quote.  For some reason on my computer, it's easier to stretch the box a little to do so.  Try that.

Wow. It really was that simple. 

Haust Wrote: Ah, there's no ping function or anything like that by replying, so just think of the 'new reply' box as the paper you're writing on, and by clicking 'quote' you copy-paste another persons text onto that paper so you can more easily reply to a specific part of the forum dialogue. But pressing 'post reply' does the exact same thing regardless if you've quoted another user or not. 

For example, if I hit 'quote' now, then the text above remains the same, like this: 

Pattychan Wrote: Hi!

Newish to the site and I'm trying to get a hang of some of the features in the forum. I tried to reply to someone on the forum and quote their comment in my reply, but it dd not work. Instead, using quote gave me their quote in a dialogue box and I couldn't add my own words. And hitting new reply took me to a new page and I could no longer see their quote. 

Any tips for this?

Once quoted, all you have to do is make sure you're writing UNDER the quoted text box, and not inside it. 

I suspect that what happened was that you accidentally clicked the edit post of something you had written, which will lead you to a page where you see your own original reply in a non-editable state for reference, and then if you scroll down you get a box where you can edit it and re-submit, but depending on your device you might not see it at first unless you scroll. That's probably the 'new page' you're talking about.

Ahh, but if the post I'm responding to is "long", I have to extend the text box. That makes sense.

Thank you for the response!

Thanks everyone for your responses!