you will be moved instantly to the Community editor to write your reply.
I don't see this. I see the reply window at the bottom of the community screen.
Over the last 2 years, I've seen a set of bugs/misfeatures in the Wolfram Community software:
The message you're replying to is typically far away in the discussion.
If you attempt to put an emoji in a message, you'll get a "The message system is temporarily unavailable" error. This can be fixed by hitting a BACK button in the browser and removing the emoji that you entered during editing. You have to figure out on your own that that the problem is the emojis you have in your message..
If you launch a new window into the Wolfram Community, your login session will often not be associated with that new window. When you try to do something that requires your id -- posting to a message or adding a LIKE -- you get popped to the home screen of the community forums. There's no reason why that new window wasn't logged in. If you hit BACK from the home screen, you're back in the discussion (but still without being logged in). The solution is to hit the RELOAD button, and then you are logged in to the discussion. I have the muscle memory to do this now, but newbies have no clues to figure this out. I'm betting a fair percentage just give up and never post their question/comment.
The Wolfram forums get very difficult to use if there are >200 message in an individual discussion. Navigation is very cumbersome. OTOH, they work pretty well if there are <20 or so messages in a particular discussion. A true Wolfram U MOOC with hundreds of participants and a lively community discussion would be problematic for discussion participation.
Notifications are an all-or-nothing proposition. One message per posting is far too many in an active discussion, but it might useful to get a daily digest of new messages.
The message preview is clunky. The side-by-side preview on other commercial bboard systems are far easier to use.
There's no way to DM other participants. "Thank you" messages to some particular participant are a drag -- especially with the number of e-mail notifications generated by every message sent to the group.
The TL;DR summary: compared with modern forum systems, the Wolfram message system doesn't work very well. It doesn't scale. It has some quirky behaviors that would bite a large percentage of users -- particularly newbies. There are many companies with Wolfram licenses, but I'm betting there's not a single one of them who use the Wolfram Community framework for their internal or customer-facing messages.
I think it's great that Wolfram Research uses its own tools whenever possible. It would be silly if WR made its own video-lecture software or a web browser or even its own computer Operating System. Why does Wolfram need to make their own bboard system? I don't know an answer. I can't find anyone who will answer the question. Is there a show-stopper around how WL code would (or wouldn't) interact with (for instance) Discourse? Is there some other issue? It's a mystery!