@msh210 Ahh I like it! If I had been viewing the chatroom from my PC rather than my mobile device and could have seen which message that was a reply to, I would have got it
@Daniel In the new mobile chat Web site, you can. Just tap the arrow that indicates it's a reply, and the message it's a reply to will highlight in yellow. (Very pale yellow relative to its color anyway. And that arrow is small. But, hey, better than nothing.)
@Daniel I guess not. I'm using Opera Mini on an iPhone (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) OPiOS/12.1.1.98980 Mobile/13D15 Safari/9537.53).
@Daniel are you using the new mobile chat interface? You have to opt into it. (Unfortunately I can't use it yet; they made the fonts too small and non-zoomable.)
@Daniel it's a beta feature right now; I assume they'll do more to make it prominent later. Or not; it might be one of those things that just passes by word of mouth. :-) I only knew about it because of the MSE post announcing it.
@Daniel yes, being able to reply to messages from a phone is a huge win! Enough so that, before they did this, somebody wrote an app (ChatSEy), which is what I use when I need to talk rather than just read on my phone.
@MonicaCellio It tells you if other people who are also using the script, who are in the room with you, are typing, or something like that. I got no benefit from it, because no one else here was using it.
@IsaacMoses oh, I remember hearing about that. Yeah, something that requires everybody to take some action (like use a script) has a hard time with adoption. Better if they built it in.
@msh210 Edits and critiques, of course, welcome. Also, although it's seasonal, it's not a slam-dunk fit for RationalistJudaism.com's usual subject matter, in particular. The same format could be re-purposed for other Q&As without too much trouble.
I flagged Am I a body with a soul or a soul with a body? as a duplicate of Is the "I" consciousness from the body or from the soul. I don't see any substantive difference between the two. It doesn't appear that anyone actually voted to close it, though my auto-generated comment got four upvotes. ...