Yeah, I'm not too fond of the replies link either, but it does make the feature much more accessible. If the reply number wasn't already used for the quoting, I'd use that. Can anyone think up any other more elegant way to do this?
Shamelessly bumping this to promote further improvement of navigation/linking & sucking up to 0ch! n, next100/previous100, etc. （n´✪ω✪n）
See also: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1099328662/21-22