What the buttons around a reply do
Every reply carries a row of controls: copy it, read it aloud, comment on it, rate it, retry it, or fork the chat from it. What each one does, and the controls in the header beside them.
Hover a reply and a row of small controls appears under it. Each one acts on that reply.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Copy | Copies the reply's text, so it pastes elsewhere as it was written |
| Read aloud | Plays the reply in a voice; the same button stops it |
| Comment | Opens the comment thread for that reply, with a count of what is there |
| Good response | Rates the reply up, and asks what was satisfying about it |
| Bad response | Rates it down, with an issue type and a box for details |
| Retry | Asks for another answer to the same question |
| Fork to a new chat | Copies the chat up to this reply into a new chat of your own |
Fork to a new chat is the one that leaves with the reply: everything to the left of it judges or changes what was said, and fork takes the conversation up to that point somewhere else. See Fork a chat.
Rating a reply
Good response and Bad response are how a reply is reported. The negative form has an issue type, including Overactive refusal and Not factually correct, and the form states what submitting sends: the whole conversation, for improving the models. Choosing the same thumb again takes the rating back. See How do I report a reply or a shared chat?.
The controls around the chat
The header carries the chat's own controls: People for who is in it and their roles, Tracker for the tables Dropstone keeps, Share for the link and invitations, and the bell for notifications. On a phone they sit behind one button.
The composer holds the rest: the model selector, the paperclip for attachments, and the incognito switch. See Get started with Dropstone Chat and Choose a model.
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- Fork a chatFork copies the conversation up to a chosen reply into a new chat of your own, so you can take a discussion in a different direction without disturbing the original. The new chat knows everything said up to that point.
- Comments, mentions, and asking Dropstone in a threadComment on any Dropstone reply in a thread, mention a person with @name so they are told, and name @dropstone in a comment to get an answer in the margin without taking a turn. Comments render markdown and formulas, and Dropstone's own comments carry a verified tick.
- Trackers: a table Dropstone keeps for the chatA tracker is a table the conversation keeps coming back to, kept as a thing of its own rather than re-pasted into every reply. Where it lives, how to change it by asking, and what a shared link does with it.
- NotificationsThe bell in Dropstone Chat, and what arrives in it: a mention in a shared chat, or an announcement from the chat's owner. How to tell them apart, and what the browser permission changes.
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