Goto-original-arrow button now sets conversation highlight/focus even when inline, setting focus now scrolls you to the focused post smoothly. Hide the arrow button when not expanded.

src/components/conversation/conversation.js

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ const sortAndFilterConversation = (conversation) => {
 }
 
 const conversation = {
+  data() {
+    return {
+      highlight: this.statusoid.id
+    }
+  },
   props: [
     'statusoid',
     'collapsable'
@@ -54,6 +59,9 @@ const conversation = {
       } else {
         return (id === this.statusoid.id)
       }
+    },
+    setHighlight(id) {
+      this.highlight = id
     }
   }
 }

src/components/conversation/conversation.vue

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     </div>
     <div class="panel-body">
       <div class="timeline">
-        <status v-for="status in conversation" :key="status.id" :statusoid="status" :expandable='false' :focused="focused(status.id)" :inConversation='true'></status>
+        <status v-for="status in conversation" @goto="setHighlight" :key="status.id" :statusoid="status" :expandable='false' :focused="focused(status.id)" :inConversation='true' :highlight="highlight"></status>
       </div>
     </div>
   </div>

src/components/status/status.js

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ const Status = {
     'statusoid',
     'expandable',
     'inConversation',
-    'focused'
+    'focused',
+    'highlight'
   ],
   data: () => ({
     replying: false,
@@ -53,6 +54,15 @@ const Status = {
       return {
         borderBottomColor: this.$store.state.config.colors['base02']
       }
+    },
+    isFocused () {
+      // retweet or root of an expanded conversation
+      if(this.focused)
+        return true
+      // use conversation highlight only when in conversation
+      else if(!this.inConversation)
+        return false
+      return this.highlight == this.status.id
     }
   },
   components: {
@@ -75,6 +85,10 @@ const Status = {
     toggleReplying () {
       this.replying = !this.replying
     },
+    gotoOriginal () {
+      // only handled by conversation, not status_or_conversation
+      this.$emit('goto', this.status.in_reply_to_status_id)
+    },
     toggleExpanded () {
       this.$emit('toggleExpanded')
     },
@@ -84,6 +98,26 @@ const Status = {
     toggleUserExpanded () {
       this.userExpanded = !this.userExpanded
     }
+  },
+  watch: {
+    'highlight': function (newfocus) {
+      if(this.status.id == newfocus) {
+        let rect = this.$el.getBoundingClientRect()
+        if(rect.top < 100)
+          window.scrollBy({
+            left: 0,
+            top: rect.top - 200,
+            behavior: 'smooth'
+          })
+        // will be useful when scrolling down to replies or root posts is in
+        else if(rect.bottom > window.innerHeight - 100)
+          window.scrollBy({
+            left: 0,
+            top: rect.bottom + 200,
+            behavior: 'smooth'
+          })
+      }
+    }
   }
 }
 

src/components/status/status.vue

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <template>
-  <div class="status-el base00-background base03-border" v-if="!status.deleted" v-bind:class="[{ 'base01-background': focused }, { 'status-conversation': inConversation }]" >
+  <div class="status-el base00-background base03-border" v-if="!status.deleted" v-bind:class="[{ 'base01-background': isFocused }, { 'status-conversation': inConversation }]" >
     <template v-if="muted">
       <div class="media status container muted">
         <small><router-link :to="{ name: 'user-profile', params: { id: status.user.id } }">{{status.user.screen_name}}</router-link></small>
@@ -35,12 +35,10 @@
                   {{status.in_reply_to_screen_name}}
                 </router-link>
               </small>
-              <template v-if="isReply">
-                  <small>
-                      <router-link :to="{ name: 'conversation', params: { id: status.in_reply_to_status_id } }">
-                          <i class="icon-reply"></i>
-                      </router-link>
-                  </small>
+              <template v-if="isReply && !expandable">
+                <small>
+                  <a href="#" @click.prevent="gotoOriginal" ><i class="icon-reply"></i></a>
+                </small>
               </template>
               -
               <small>