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Show What Comment Replied To

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-Brass_Glass-
Posted 12/24/2025 at 5:30 AM
In most websites, such as Discord, when you reply, it will show a bit of the message above it. Yet, this functionality isn't found on Scratch, leading to a lot of ambiguity. Well do I propose a fix to this!! Once the "reply" button is pressed, it shows a text box for the user to type in (as usual), but it also includes a string of zero-width characters. These characters are simply the number part of the link the comment replied to. -# For reference, I'm talking about the bolded portion of this: htt​ps://scratch.m​it.edu/users/-Brass_​Glass-/#comments-**__372370232__** Then, for users with the feature enabled, it will show the original reply above it, just like how Discord does it, by reading the string of characters! And, for people without the extension, it is zero-width, so it doesn't show \:D The actual logistics for the characters is simple, [here](https://unicode-explorer.com/articles/space-characters) is a simple list of space characters (in the middle of the webpage). You can also use LTR and RTL (left-to-right, right-to-left) to use base-6 instead of base-4. In terms of display, as the aforementioned message entailed, it would be nice to have it sort of how Discord does it. The only difference which I propose is to instead have the original comment be directly next to the username. To make it less cluttered though, if the comment is replying to the one directly above it, it can instead simply draw a line between the two message's profile pictures, kind of like how Reddit does it, just without the indent. I also provided a quick mock-up of how I would imagine it to be \:) -# Possibly not the final design, but something like the attachment. Hope this is considered, and isn't too complicated to perform! \:D

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-Brass_Glass- OP 12/24/2025 at 8:32 AM

Note that the Supplementary Private Use Unicode block has been chosen to be used instead of space characters (like LRM) as to not cause formatting or internal text issues (as well as having more characters to utilise)

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