The “Reply” to topic is easily confused with the “Reply” to the last comment. I do it all the time. If you post a comment and realise you posted it as a subcomment instead of a comment on the topic and delete the subcomment and try then to post it on the main topic, it won’t let you since it is con…

Bug Reports are for issues with the iNaturalist platform itself, not the forum. The Forum is run on Discourse software. You could file a bug report with them, though this is more of a design choice than a bug per se. Since I don’t think there’s anything that iNat can do (as it is how Discourse funct…

here’s the forum for the Discourse software - the UX category might be a good place to share your thoughts https://meta.discourse.org/c/ux/9

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meteorquake December 14, 2025, 8:44pm 4

Good point I’ll do so

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