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New Feature: Response Templates!

Andy Zhao (he/him) on April 17, 2020

I'm excited to announce a new feature we've been working on: response templates! This feature was first requested by our community moderators. Th...
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Sloan the DEV Moderator

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Ben Halpern

Lol this is me just trolling by using this feature in mod mode. Pretty cool! ๐Ÿ˜„

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Ben Halpern

I already have a few personal response templates as stashes for DEV posts I frequently want to point folks to in terms of my advice for them early on. I've already found uses for it in the hours since this has gone live.

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Arit Developer

Yeaaaahhh!!!!!

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Jason C. McDonald

Great to see these starting to be rolled out!

The Sloan feature is indeed good, but, I can't see the whole message before posting, and that's potentially an issue. Also, if I need to be able to adjust on a canned message slightly, without creating an altogether new template, I can't presently do that. Any way to make Post as Mod not be immediate?

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

can't see the whole message before posting

That's a good point, I'll add that soon!

if I need to be able to adjust on a canned message slightly, without creating an altogether new template

Hmm, not sure what you mean here. If I needed to adjust a message, I would insert it and then adjust it before submitting the comment. Do you mean adjusting a mod template?

Any way to make Post as Mod not be immediate?

Sorry, do you mind clarifying this too?

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Hmm, not sure what you mean here. If I needed to adjust a message, I would insert it and then adjust it before submitting the comment.

Yes, exactly. I need to be able to insert the message, as a mod, and adjust it before submitting. It appears I can't currently do that. It just posts it as is, right away, without a chance to adjust.

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Lou (๐Ÿš€ Open Up The Cloud โ˜๏ธ)

It does appear to do this? It seems to just inject the string into the comment box? Then you can edit ad-hoc before posting?

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Jason C. McDonald

That's only if you want to post as yourself. Not as Sloan.

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Robin Kretzschmar

Awesome implementation, I've been waiting for this, bye bye notion template for common responses ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ˜Š

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Rose Day

Hello! Love the additional feature, looking forward to using it. ๐Ÿ˜„

Question - Is it possible to make the documentation a bit clearer up top? I found it a bit confusing to figure out what was meant by document button at first.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

That's good feedback, thanks!

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Francisco Quintero ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด • Edited

Nice feature. Yesterday, I was updating my settings and saw this option. I tought it was really old ๐Ÿ˜…

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Lou (๐Ÿš€ Open Up The Cloud โ˜๏ธ)

This is BALLIN'! Thanks Andy!

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Thomas Bnt

yaaay ! :D

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Bhupesh Varshney ๐Ÿ‘พ

Ahhh Yess Its here
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Thanks