XF 1.0 Quoting Multiple Posts

You may have noticed how the 'Reply' links on messages focus the quick reply editor, and pull in a quoted version of the message to which you are replying so that you can easily edit/trim your quote.

Have you also noticed however, that you are not limited to quoting a single message? You can click the 'reply' link on multiple messages and each of them will deliver their content to the quick reply box.

I say Multi-Quote (kinda) because at present this functionality is limited to messages on the same page, but I plan to allow this to operate across multiple pages in due course.

 

[Deleted member 745]

Will multi-quotes work in 1.1, like for example on this thread if I quote post 2 then click page 4 and quote a post from there or would it cancel out quote from post 2?

 

[Digital Doctor]

Will multi-quotes work in 1.1, like for example on this thread if I quote post 2 then click page 4 and quote a post from there or would it cancel out quote from post 2?

It is not on the list for 1.1.
I guess there could be a lucky surprise .. but if I were you I would assume it is not in 1.1.

 

[Digital Doctor]

For Multi-Quote,
Could Xenforo (and the browser) accept either of these inputs ...

(1) control + left click on Reply button.
(2) left click on Reply and hold for 4 seconds ?

#2 would be the best.

 

[Onimua]

For Multi-Quote,
Could Xenforo (and the browser) accept either of these inputs ...

(1) control + left click on Reply button.
(2) left click on Reply and hold for 4 seconds ?

#2 would be the best.

Neither of those are very user-intuitive though, especially the second option when it comes to what the user is used to happening on the internet with single clicks and no other commands or wait times.

 

[SchmitzIT]

One of our users also asked about whether it would be possible to have multi-quote work across multiple pages. So I'd like to add my support to that

Edit: And is it possible to add a linebreak after the quoted text somehow without hacking the code?

 

[MRaburn]

Quoting across multiple pages is a current request of our users as well.

 

[RobParker]

The two complaints we have from our users are that:

1) Quoting automatically shifts the focus to the reply box at the bottom of the page and if you're trying to quote multiple posts you have to then scroll back up and find it again

2) There's no multiple-page quoting which a lot of people are requesting

 

[Digital Doctor]

Neither of those are very user-intuitive

I think multi-quote is for power users only anyway.
They'll seek out how to multi-quote.
So I don't think you need to clutter up the GUI by having [Multi-Quote] buttons on every post.
There is a direct trade off between intuitiveness of the GUI and cluttering it up.
If you have a better idea, please suggest it.

I think if you hover over the Permalink [#108] in this post .... I think a popup that says: Append quote to clipboard ? and the user clicks YES. would work pretty well.

 

[x_Stricken_x]

I think multi-quote is for power users only anyway.
They'll seek out how to multi-quote.
So I don't think you need to clutter up the GUI by having [Multi-Quote] buttons on every post.
There is a direct trade off between intuitiveness of the GUI and cluttering it up.
If you have a better idea, please suggest it.

I think if you hover over the Permalink [#108] in this post .... I think a popup that says: Append quote to clipboard ? and the user clicks YES. would work pretty well.

I honestly just realized the permalink is right to the left of the like and reply buttons.... But honestly, why make a user have to make more clicks if you don't have to? It's not like there's plenty of real-estate to expand

 

[DRE]

The two complaints we have from our users are that:

1) Quoting automatically shifts the focus to the reply box at the bottom of the page and if you're trying to quote multiple posts you have to then scroll back up and find it again

2) There's no multiple-page quoting which a lot of people are requesting

Yep we need that and a multi-quote link or button.

 

[tafreehm]

The two complaints we have from our users are that:

1) Quoting automatically shifts the focus to the reply box at the bottom of the page and if you're trying to quote multiple posts you have to then scroll back up and find it again

2) There's no multiple-page quoting which a lot of people are requesting

yea that option is mandatory

 

[webroxau]

Multi quote across pages and having an option to disable the quick reply focus are the things being requested by my community since we changed over.

 

[D.O.A.]

+1 on my members demanding I get this back (bloody ppl are stuck in their vbulletin ways lol) anyway, I just had to quote 20 posts as part of a Q/A thread, click one quote, jump to the editor, scroll back up to the next post, click one quote, jump to the editor, scroll back up to the next post, click one quote, jump to the editor, scroll back up to the next post, click one quote, jump to the editor, scroll back up to the next post...

+2 on me requesting something be done, cause man, that **** got tiring after about 3 seconds

 

[Alpha1]

Please give us real multi quote functionality. It is much needed.

 

[Luxus]

FWIW, Mike is in the process of changing the system so that it only quotes a single level - no more nesting by default.

I already did.

I just saw this post. Please change it back to nested quotes because in practise it hinders the flow of discussions.

 

[RobParker]

I just saw this post. Please change it back to nested quotes because in practise it hinders the flow of discussions.

I think we at least need the option for how we want it (which hopefully it sounds like we have as Mike referred to a "default").

 

[Gladius]

Personally I think that anything more than 1 level is a pointless waste of screen and database space, but some admins (especially those coming from phpBB) are emotionally attached to quote pyramids and can't live without them. I always regarded that as bizarre, but that's just me...

 

[Luxus]

Personally I think that anything more than 1 level is a pointless waste of screen and database space, but some admins (especially those coming from phpBB) are emotionally attached to quote pyramids and can't live without them. I always regarded that as bizarre, but that's just me...

Imagine you reply to a reply that consists of just "Why is that?" The context is lost. You have to find the post that the "Why is that" is referring to. I'd rather have pyramids of quotes than quotes without context.

 

[Gladius]

You can always jump back via the quote arrow markers to get to the original post if need be and whoever replies to something like that is replying in context anyway and knows what they're replying to. Anyone reading can just read the thread in the posted order and see the same.

Frankly, introducing quote pyramids just for the sake of having quotes for such instances makes no sense. But like I said, this is personal preference. Pointless bloat which very rarely serves any actual purpose and is not really necessary is normally not something that most people want. One of my communities thought they couldn't live without it when we moved from UBB which had nested quotes to vB which didn't, but a month or two later the issue never came up again.

But if you wanted to please everyone you could just let every individual admin specify how many levels deep they want to allow quote nesting. That way everyone can set it as they like.

 

[Biker]

Ugh. I hate seeing posts with 6 nested quotes and the person is replying to just one comment out of it all. Can't be bothered. to edit the fluff out, so it makes the entire thing a pain.

Personally, I like the way the existing quote system works. Just need the ability to quote across multiple pages in a thread easily.