[quote=@Mahz] I haven't caught up reading this thread yet. [quote=@Captain Jordan] As a side note, I'm actually curious how far we can nest posts. Anyone care to give it a try? [/quote] The Reply button makes a request to the "View Raw" endpoint, wraps it in [noparse][quote=@][/quote][/noparse], and appends it to the editor, so it's far from being smart enough to strip embedded quotes. I would need to edit the bbcode parser itself. It's a problem because my goal is for people to use the Reply button incessantly without thinking about it. The current implementation gives you the entirety of nested quote context. What do you think of having [code]Reply[/code] and [code]Quote&Reply[/code] buttons on posts? - [code]Reply[/code] just does the @Mention-injection for you. Simply serves the purpose of indicating who you're responding to and sends them a notification so they're aware of your response. Ideally so simple that people will use it to respond to the post above them where you wouldn't want to quote. - [code]Quote&Reply[/code] is like the current Reply button except it contains no nested quotes. Or includes just one nested level but collapses them into some glyph like "[Snipped Captain Jordan quote]" (i.e. in particular, @mentions need to be removed from inner quotes). As we talking about before, I can extend the quote bbcode with [noparse][quote=Captain Jordan post=42]...[/quote][/noparse] so that quotes link to the target post. That way, if you do want to see the nested quotes, it's just one click away. But 2+ levels of nested quotes by default is just awful and generally not what people want. Also, perhaps I can support a special empty quote like [noparse][quote=@ post=42][/quote][/noparse] to drop a simple one-line glyph like "In reply to [@Captain Jordan], :". The above Reply button could inject that. In other words, I really want to lean hard on the @mention system once I extend the notification system to support it. Like reddit's orangered envelope, @mention notifications will kinda represent your TODO-list of posts to reply to. The lack of awareness when someone replies to you is probably the most unforgivable feature of legacy forum software. New platforms like Vanilla Forum and Xenforo are finally addressing this. [/quote] I like this idea. I think we can all agree that nesting all quotes by default isn't the most desired system.