Discourse forums - replying to someone is bugged

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So just now I replied to Patrick and it looks like it did not directly reply to him. But I know I clicked reply to him, so that’s a bug. This bug has been happening for a while actually. I’m just now complaining about it.

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So just now I replied to Patrick and it looks like it did not directly reply to him. But I know I clicked reply to him, so that’s a bug. This bug has been happening for a while actually. I’m just now complaining about it.

Something like this would probably be considered an upstream issue. I actually prefer to just click on the reply button for the whole thread and hit that. Then I can copy and paste in the message I intended to send from a text editor. I can use the “>” in my message to indicate that I am quoting something.

In theory, we should be copying and pasting messages like this anyways, in order to avoid keystroke dynamics fingerprinting. According to http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/wiki/Keystroke_and_Mouse_Deanonymization#Keystroke_Dynamics

To reduce this risk:

Use a common keyboard layout (like en-US) to blend in with most users.
Avoid typing directly into websites when JavaScript is enabled - websites can silently track when you press and release each key.
Instead, type your message in a text editor (offline), then copy and paste it into the website when finished.
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You should see my new thread I can't copy text from Whonix and paste it in host OS

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So use the text editor (featherpad) in the guest system instead of using the text editor on your host system. Copying and pasting within the VM still works.

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Exactly.

Discourse forums software issue. We generally don’t work in that kind of issues.

Applicable wiki chapters:

(Wiki chapter names don’t exactly match but the content is applicable anyhow.)

So your only option is to move this upstream.

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