Good day! I’m investigating the features/abilities of Mattermost and I can not find how can I reply to the message within the thread. I can not see such button if I tap the message in the thread. I suppose to be able to create a new thread (replying the message) or have some visible elements, which will show my message is a reply to the some specific message in the thread.
Maybe I missed something?
And one more question: can I quote a message (or it’s part) in the thread while replying?
Interesting. I don’t have admin on our community instance so I can’t look into that there. I suspect it’s a permissions issue. Have you tried in Town Square or Off Topic? Open a direct message to me (I’m john.oliver there) and I’ll see if I can invite you in to a specific channel.
Hey Sanders,
I think i understand what you’re looking for but I don’t think it’s possible. Threads are at a single depth, so you can’t thread within a thread. So in the case you showed, you have the option to reply in the thread, but you won’t see a button to create a thread for a specific comment already in that thread. This is because a message is a message, and you can create a thread from a message, but you can not create 2 threads from the same message, and one a comment is part of a thread, a second thread can’t be made from it.
I think the best you’d be able to do is copy text from the post you want to reply to, and then use the quote function to make it clear that it’s specifically what you were responding to. Then folks (or even you) could reply to that new standalone message as a thread should they choose.
TLDR, i don’t think it’s a permissions issue, just that nested threads don’t exist in Mattermost (this is the case for many chat apps).
