Adding my answer to a question

[Jason Judge]

I've seen some questions answered here, and in some cases can offer some additional information that I feel would help. When I hit the "reply" button I get taken to the "new question" page. Why does that happen?

[Jeremy Largman · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the clarification in the comment that this was from forums. Yes, forums.atlassian.com is deprecated, so the thing to do is re-ask that question in Answers if you're still needing a solution.

As for the awkward redirect, I've opened a bug report for us to track this:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-215

[Jeremy Largman]

Hi Jason - I'm not quite following. Do you mean you're replying via email? Here on the page itself you should be able to answer the question or add a comment. If there's a bug I'm keen to find out...

[Jason Judge]

I found this page with a question and answer on:

http://forums.atlassian.com/thread.jspa?threadID=40112

(Okay, noticied it is forums, not answers). Each comment there has a "reply" link. I'm logged in there and hit the reply link. That does not let me add a comment to the discussion there, but throws me to the answers site, leaving me in the "ask a question" page:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/ask/?messageID=257328874

Maybe the thread is closed, or maybe it has something to do with my account, but "reply" should not mean "ask a question".