What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

OK, so this kinda embarrassing but I'm technologically backwards and I don't know how to post GIFs on my reviews or (I'm not sure how to explain this) forward other people's comments. Does that make sense?
Well, if anyone could instruct me

Or tell me, I'd be eternally grateful.

P. S I accidentally cut off half of the first message (see what I mean about my technology skills?)

GR is kinda lousy when it comes to formatting and making that process easy, but at the top of text boxes you should see a (some html is ok) link, if you click on that it will bring up a little window that tells you how to format for things like images. Which is the same code you'd use for GIFs. The easiest way to use it is just to copy and paste the example and then edit it to add the url for the GIF you want to use.

As for forwarding people's comments I'm not too sure what you're looking to do, can you explain what you want to achieve?

Thanks! I'll try that.
About the second thing, I mean, like have you ever seen on some chat where a person references the person before. E.g Amy said : blah blah etc and then the person makes their own comment?
I'm not explaining this very well, if you don't get what I'm saying, no worries. It's not that big of a deal.
And thank you so much for explaining the other thing. I really appreciate it.

Zara wrote: "Thanks! I'll try that.
About the second thing, I mean, like have you ever seen on some chat where a person references the person before. E.g Amy said : blah blah etc and then the person makes thei..."

Ah ok. Like this? You just need to click the little reply link at the bottom of their comment on the right and it will copy the beginning of what they said and add the "so and so wrote" header. Though a lot of people will also copy/paste the bit that they are replying to into that since the reply function isn't smart and just pulls the first x number of characters from the comment. So sometimes you get a long string of "name1 wrote: name2 wrote: name3 wrote:" when a lot of replies are being made back and forth.

And I hope the image info helps, if you still have trouble with GIFs I'll see if I can come up with a better explanation.

Yes, exactly like that. But I'm not seeing a 'reply link' like you said.
And I have tried to send a GIF but all I get is a lot of writing, I'm not seeing the 'link' you mentioned.
Maybe it's something to do with the type of phone I have?

It could be your phone, are you using the Goodreads app or the browser on your phone to view GR?
I know that the app is missing a lot of functions, and so is the mobile version of the site, if you're using your browser you could try setting it to request the desktop site -then you'll see the regular interface and not the one they designed for small screens which might help.

Here's a screenshot of your last comment and the comment box for me to reply

You're not seeing either of the things I marked in red?

If you can't view the formatting tips in the (some html is ok) pop up you can write it in manually, it's a pain to do it but it's possible, you'd need to write in (or copy paste)

<*img src="Image url goes in here"/>

And delete the * which has to be there for the formatting to show up as code, but isn't actually part of it, make sure you leave the quote marks around the url though. As long as you are using the correct url for the image you should get something like this

I'm using the app and I'm not seeing any of what you pointed out. I tried to send a GIF, like you said but all that got sent was blank space.

*frustrated sigh* me and technology are like water and oil, so I'm going to give up before I cause irrevocable damage to my phone.
Still, thanks for trying.

Now if you could just tell me how I can delete this thread......