First of all, from myself and the rest of the Programmer's Heaven team, Happy New Year!

Today we have rolled out a small change to the forum reply page. Before, we would always automatically quote the post you were replying to. This dates back to when the forums only allowed you to view a thread post by post, however for a while now it's been possible to view the entire thread on a single page. With the reply always being quoted by default, this often just led to the page becoming cluttered - if you were reading through the conversation, you'd end up finding parts of it repeated. The context that used to be provided by always quoting the reply has become less useful.

Therefore, to try and encourage not quoting the entire original message when it's not needed, we now don't quote it by default. There is, however, a button that you can press to have the original post put into the reply box quoted, just as before, if you want to reply to it part by part (which is sometimes the best and clearest way).

Of course, if the post isn't quoted in there, it can be hard to remember everything in the original post that you are replying to, and therefore a copy of it is shown at the bottom of the post reply page also, so you can reference the original post still while writing the reply.

Please do leave feedback if you like or dislike this change.