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After i subscribe to a conversation i click reply on one of the entrys, i end up replying to somthing completley different. how do i reply to the conversation i've subscribed to?

Can you describe exactly what you did? Clicking 'reply' *should* create a reply to the specific posting above the reply button

As an aside, replying to a posting will automatically subscribe you to the conversation - you don't have to subscribe first.

If you are going to reply anyway then you don't need to subscribe. Subscribing certainly shouldn't stop you replying though. Are you sure you a clicking on the right button/link? The link to reply to a post is on the bottom of the post itself. I just used the one on your post to reply. There will be a separate one on my post when I've finished it. "Replying" to an article page will just be starting a new conversation.

Oops - simulpost!

Makes a change for me to get here first

Perhaps Morpheus is not replying to the LAST posting in a conversation, ie, has come in somewhere up the line?

Just a thought...

Morpheus,

No matter which posting in a conversation you reply to, your answer will always appear at the end of the conversation. This can make it look as if you were replying to something completely different.

Yeh if you are replying to a sertain person a lot of people in a large thread do this....

Gnomon

post 7......

then right the reply to the post so the person you replyed to knows its them you are talking to and what post
it is in reference to

What makes this more difficult is: the relatively common occurrance of simulposts, the intermittent bug which conceals the last few posts until you have posted yourself and the sites like the hub on which it is slightly harder to see that there are more pages after the one just read (no links at the bottom). All this is in addition to the people who don't think to look for another page, don't have or understand the tree diagram and don't realise that posts are not slotted into the flow as they are on the BBCi message board threads. NB I would say that the dna system was slightly better than the MB system though for a number of reasons. Some combination or choice of views would be even better though.

yeh there is a few cases of simulposts witch case if you type a long post that some one els has covered you could have saved your fingers and responded to the post that has coverd it already

That wasn't the point I was making, intern.

Ahh go on then but never the less it could be true enough

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Yes, it can be slow at times.

Pushing the back button at the wrong second can really mess up things.
It took months for someone else to confirm that a post of theirs went to the wrong thread.
It can happensomehow. It happened when I was also seeing -1 post alot and the servers were acting oddly.

I'm still getting -1 on posts. I suspect it of being down to not having read all the posts of the thread before going to the last page(s) of it but I don't really have enough experimental evidence.

People have been complaining for a long time that they were suddenly taken to a specific forum or subscribed to it without having done so deliberately (NB this forum doesn't have an article they could have wandered past). Someone else has recently complained of not seeing their post in the thread after posting but being taken to the forum list of threads instead. I don't think I've come across any instances of back affecting posting by making it go to the wrong thread but I can just about see how it might start a new thread. The new SSO system didn't like the back button being pressed. So if someone was being told to sign on before they could post, I suppose the number for reply to might not be passed on properly.

The -1 on posts is a known bug which Jim Lynne has the fix for but has not yet applied as he doesn't want a system outage just for this. It applies only to very large conversations.

I was getting -ve numbers on conversations which were only a couple of pages long. I don't think I've seen any recently though. Sometimes one particular long thread reports 0 new posts when someone has clearly posted after me and I haven't yet been back to look.