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[Milliways]

I tried to post a reply to a post (a couple of hours old) and was told "This topic is too old to reply, so, it's locked now. Thanks."

[TheSaint]

There no option to use QUOTE, so just reply without quote. Anyway you may write the tags and quote the previous message, manually. Like this:

I tried to post a reply to a post

If is that you meant.
BTW which topic you're mentioning ?

[Milliways]

All other phpBB forums I have used allow "quote".

If it does not work, why is it there - even worse provide a misleading error message?

[moonman]

Is your timezone set correctly in preferences?

[bulletmark]

@moonman, this issue has existed for ages and has been frequently complained about with no response from the maintainers. E.g. see viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12751.

[moonman]

The threads are locked so that there is less necroposting and less spam and given how many people maintain the forum it isn't going away.

Did changing the timezone to a correct/different one not help? I don't know where the issue is coming from with quote buttons.

[bulletmark]

@moonman, I suspect you are not seeing the issue which the OP and the other thread I linked to is complaining about.

If I click on the Quote button on your reply above which is from 9 mins ago, I immediately get the error message the OP refers to. My timezone is correct at UTC+10. Does it in both Chrome and Firefox.

[TheSaint]

The threads are locked so that there is less necroposting and less spam

I do agree with this policy. But it seems is changed now.