I'm struggling with the new interface, particularly with quoting.
Is there a guide anywhere?
And if not, could someone give me an overview on the +quote vs reply, and how to more easily break up one quote into multiple quotes.
I'm on an iPhone usually, through Safari, if that makes a difference.
There is no guide anywhere that I'm aware of.
When you click the "+ Quote" button, you will have added a post to a "reservoir" of quotes, so to speak. You can store as many posts as you want by clicking on that button to their bottom right. (I'm not aware of any limitation on the number of posts you can quote.) Then, when you're composing a new post, there will be an "Insert Quotes..." button below the typing space. If you click on that, it will give you the option to insert the messages you have quoted into your post. You can quote posts from different threads into other threads using this method.
The "Reply" button quotes one post. If you want to quote multiple posts using the "Reply" button, you can click on it for one post, save it in the draft (by clicking on the floppy disk icon from the options bar above the typing space), and then click "Reply" for another post and save the draft again, and so on. The "+ Quote" button makes it easier to quote multiple posts without having to go back and click the "Reply" button separately for each post you want to quote, and it also doesn't require that you save the draft if you want to quote posts from different pages or threads into one post.
If you want to break a large quote into smaller quotes, you can do one of two things, or both, at your preference:
1) Highlight the part you want to quote from the post with your mouse. When it is highlighted in blue, a small pop-up will appear giving you the option to use one of two buttons: "+ Quote" and "Reply." Clicking "+ Quote" will store it for later insertion into one of your posts, and clicking "Reply" will quote it normally.
This option is very impractical and tedious on a phone, however, so I will delve into the other option:
2) Click the "Reply" button you normally click to quote a post, and then when you want to isolate a particular portion of the post, either delete the rest of the post or, if you want to preserve the whole post but divide it into smaller chunks, just place your text cursor at the beginning of the part you want to quote, type this: [quote ] (without spaces), and then go to the end of the part you want to quote and type [/quote ] (without spaces). This will quote individual parts of your post as desired.
I hope this helps.