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You know how when you reply to a post, it gives a little arrow in the top? So that you (or, more likely others) can click the arrow and it shows you the original post that the reply refers to?

This seems to not be working, on either PC or phone, for the last few weeks. I didn’t realize how much I use it for context, until it was gone.

I think there was an upgrade not too long ago - I feel like it may have happened then?

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Huh weird I could have sworn I’d seen it on another thread recently but now I don’t see it

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I’m seeing it here on Duckie’s thread

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Same on Apple products (iPhone and iPad)

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Oh it probably at least doesn’t work for replying to the main post, re-test

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Still working on my android so maybe apple specific?

What browser y’all using?

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I’ve been meaning to make this same thread! It still works on my phone to see the replied-to post, but not on my laptop (both using chrome browser).

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I believe I see the same behavior as @Crow.

Pixel Phone + Chrome = I see the little curving arrow in the upper-right of the post, and clicking it scrolls the browser up to the post being replied-to. Works as expected. :+1:

Windows + Chrome = I see the little curving “reply” arrow in the upper-right of the post, but when I click on it it “swirls”/animates briefly, but the browser does not scroll up to the original post. Clicking the curving “reply” arrow effectively does nothing. :-1:

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Hmm it works for my on safari iOS but not on Chrome on a Windoze computer.

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There was talk about it on @zygote journal a week or so ago. I’m on an iPhone and it works fine there plus on my iPad but doesn’t work on my laptop.

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Same for me on same combo

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Safari browser.

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this is what I am seeing.

And on the android, just nothing - I thought I wasn’t hitting the button in the right spot

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Thanks for the report. Seems like the browser is a consistency issue. I’ll bring it up on the discourse forums

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super weird, I have no idea what this error means, but I get this in the console when I click the icon:

Failed to notify focus taken

It’s weird that that error message doesn’t show up in searches at all.

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I wonder if it’s a typo in the logging. I could see someone making a “focus token” which tracks and directs where in a thread someone is looking, and when the button is clicked the system should notify said token but either it can’t send or the token doesn’t return the appropriate message received code/Boolean/whatevs

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Same on Chrome with MacBook Air, Sequoia 15.3