diff --git a/src/components/compose-button.jsx b/src/components/compose-button.jsx
index ceb452c..3587c2f 100644
--- a/src/components/compose-button.jsx
+++ b/src/components/compose-button.jsx
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ export default function ComposeButton() {
       const newWin = openCompose();
 
       if (!newWin) {
-        alert('Looks like your browser is blocking popups.');
         states.showCompose = true;
       }
     } else {
diff --git a/src/components/compose.jsx b/src/components/compose.jsx
index f5d8a64..18480db 100644
--- a/src/components/compose.jsx
+++ b/src/components/compose.jsx
@@ -607,7 +607,6 @@ function Compose({
                   });
 
                   if (!newWin) {
-                    alert('Looks like your browser is blocking popups.');
                     return;
                   }
 
diff --git a/src/components/status.jsx b/src/components/status.jsx
index 67c94ce..a5ef587 100644
--- a/src/components/status.jsx
+++ b/src/components/status.jsx
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import htmlContentLength from '../utils/html-content-length';
 import isMastodonLinkMaybe from '../utils/isMastodonLinkMaybe';
 import localeMatch from '../utils/locale-match';
 import niceDateTime from '../utils/nice-date-time';
+import openCompose from '../utils/open-compose';
 import pmem from '../utils/pmem';
 import safeBoundingBoxPadding from '../utils/safe-bounding-box-padding';
 import shortenNumber from '../utils/shorten-number';
@@ -373,10 +374,17 @@ function Status({
     canBoost = true;
   }
 
-  const replyStatus = () => {
+  const replyStatus = (e) => {
     if (!sameInstance || !authenticated) {
       return alert(unauthInteractionErrorMessage);
     }
+    // syntheticEvent comes from MenuItem
+    if (e?.shiftKey || e?.syntheticEvent?.shiftKey) {
+      const newWin = openCompose({
+        replyToStatus: status,
+      });
+      if (newWin) return;
+    }
     states.showCompose = {
       replyToStatus: status,
     };
@@ -855,7 +863,7 @@ function Status({
   );
 
   const hotkeysEnabled = !readOnly && !previewMode;
-  const rRef = useHotkeys('r', replyStatus, {
+  const rRef = useHotkeys('r, shift+r', replyStatus, {
     enabled: hotkeysEnabled,
   });
   const fRef = useHotkeys(
diff --git a/src/utils/open-compose.js b/src/utils/open-compose.js
index da67711..b819287 100644
--- a/src/utils/open-compose.js
+++ b/src/utils/open-compose.js
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ export default function openCompose(opts) {
     // }
 
     newWin.__COMPOSE__ = opts;
+  } else {
+    alert('Looks like your browser is blocking popups.');
   }
 
   return newWin;