Re: Quick reply box

Posted by GregChapman on Mar 08, 2012; 12:43pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Quick-reply-box-tp7353878p7354798.html

There is no option built into Nabble and it would involve a significant amount of coding if it was to be done well.

Consider this...

The fundamental trouble is, that it wouldn't create a reply, would it?

The forums that that offer a quick reply box are very different from Nabble in their structure. They don't offer the Threaded view. They don't allow you to subscribe, post or reply by email. They don't allow you to restructure your forum as a Blog, Newpaper, Gallery and more. They don't have an equivalent of Nabble's Universal Back-End.

Unless you can link a "quick reply" to a particular previous post then it will destroy many of Nabble's benefits for your users, and perhaps you.

Making that link with a previous post will involve clicking on some option somewhere and that will take as long as clicking an existing "Reply" link.

In short, to code the "Quick Reply" box well will also require you to remove or make significant adaptations, to all the facilities for email use of your forum, e.g. subscriptions, posting and replies and it will probably not make using it any quicker for your users.

On the plus side, one of the great advantages of Nabble is that you can edit the NAML code, so if you want to tackle the job yourself, you can. Good luck! :-)