Some of these button shortcuts are pretty interesting
Like Ctrl+K lets you put your stuff in this preformatted text box...
But some of them donāt workā¦ like putting in a horizontal rule
This shortcut, ctrl+R is also the shortcut for refreshing a webpage, so all pressing that does, is refreshes the pageā¦ maybe change that to something that doesnāt already have a standard function in browsers.
spoiler function is dumb and doesnāt even indicate that content exists
how stupid is it that you have to highlight a large section of text jsut to find out there is something hidden there rather than having some indicate that text is there for people that want to read it. This is an anime forum and requires people to be able to discuss shows they have seen without spoiling later episodes for people that have not sen it and spoiler tag is a MUST. I can imagine most people would not even think to highlight a large section of a post that looks like someone hit the enter key 20 times jsut to give the post padding. Most REAL forums this day and age have added some indicater that there is something hidden there so people donāt have to manually do it as I have done in this post below.
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Also on this note, it does have a LOT of white space added when it is spoilered text and already there is too much whitespace that is wasted real estate.
And you cannot spoiler images at all. they just break as seen above and leave the code text and image URL in the spoiler section.
These things should have been fixed in the alpha stages to make sure content worked correctly before you start mucking around with fancy pagination systems and such. the weaknesses of this software for the purpose of this forum are so huge, it bewilders me how they were EVER paired.
Having the automatic recognition of the image and to properly style the page and code for it with jsut the url is fine, also the BBCode method, but leaving the HTML tags themselves available could too easily set up the users of the forum and the forum itself for code injection that could cause damage to either or both. This is the reason BBCode was created to prevent people from having access to direct HTML tags. Having the threat of code injection as well having to use both BBCode and HTML tags is unintuitive and as has now appeared several times in our recent post, makes for a very sad Elsie.
She has enough to deal with handling the 404s of tan, and doesnāt need the confusion of having to use both BBCode and HTML tags just to get the proper result.
BBCode or HTML, pick oneNOTboth. (The preceeding contained both in the bold and italicized words.)
BBCode should work nested inside other code so that you donāt have to mix it to get it to work.
Not to mentnion that the actual code you presented:
Iām not a huge fan of this spoiler setup either. I prefer it to be a collapsible style spoiler where clicking the spoiler tag will make it appear or disappear. It also cuts down on space that way.
I mentioned it a few days ago, but thereās a way to make something like that, but Iāve only seen it working in chrome and on mobile devices.
If you happen to be using chromeā¦
You can make this sentence say anything, and upon clicking this sentence....It should show whatever you want to put inside... even images. [img]/uploads/animenetwork2/22933/ca41c76ab3b57870.png[/img]
The formatting for this is
<details><summary>Shown Text Here</summary>Hidden Text Here</details>
Now, before any of you say itās not working for you, and that I should check my codeā¦ It is working, and the code is perfectly fine. But, like I said before, it seems you have to be running chrome, or it just shows everythingā¦
Hereās a comparison of the same post in chrome (left) vs. Internet Explorer 11 (right)
Youāll see on the Chrome side, thereās a little arrow next to the first sentence. clicking that arrow or the sentence itself would normally reveal the second sentence. However in IE11, it just shows both sentences.
We need something like this collapsible text box, only one that works for everyone.
Why does the forum support something that is Google Chrome specific on desktop? We had this functionality cross-browser before.
Oddly enough, while the kludge-spoiler setup doesnāt work on any Firefox that Iāve tried on desktop, it does work on FF mobile. Testing that allowed me to notice the rather eerie forum feature where if a post is still āunder constructionā on the desktop it will show up as such on mobile.
Almost disappointingly, however, if I have the post editor open on both mobile and desktop any changes made to a prospective post in one are not shown on the other; only reloading the page causes such changes to be shown. That would have unlocked maximum creep factor, instead of the ~90% that weāre currently at.
Alright, my infant pleas havenāt been heard here in awhile. Itās time to drop some gripes I have off here that Iāve discovered. For one, why in the BLEEP is there an edit limit? This wasnāt a problem before in the old forums that I know of for an edit limit to be used. Though, this is new software. But still, like really!?
Hereās the screenshotā¦
-Doubletake-ā¦ did I just read that right? Iām remaining patient, donāt get me wrong, but NO limits should be put in place for editing. That was something that I fell in love with regarding the old boards.
If this can be looked into and removedā¦ or the limit set to something that we wonāt run into, that will be much appreciated. No edit limits should exist. This goes the same way for editing something 5 years ago that was posted. We still are not certain for this, but if that is another limit, please can these be changed.
On another subject, I do agree that the spoiler system needs work. Being able to blur text out is fine as a little extra feature, but with like many other boards Iāve visited, we do need the traditional collapsible spoiler box here. Being able to store something large, like a list, was so convenient. This is needed badly.
I do find it strange that ability to skip a few lines in between things has been lost. The only way that I have been able to do it is by using the HTML code for paragraph and line breaks (**< p >< /p >** & **< br >< /br >**).
Like as above with how I changed the spacing between the horizontal rule lines, this seems to be the new norm for now. Iām not sure if this could be changed, but as we all sayā¦ simple is always better.
I could understand having a limit the the numebr of times you can post in quick sucession due to max#users and such like:
You must wait 60 seconds before posting again
But to have a limit to the number of times you can edit something in such a cluttered and lacking posting system int he first palce is just stupid. Also the fact the posting area due to being some cornholed javascript nonsense rather than an actualy posting form built using a proper GET or POST method (POST prefered) disables spellcheckers. Thus you might have to go back and edit a post many times.
I hope it isnāt like tumblr where you have a posting limit, because then the forums would die.
I am seeing this more like a blog comments kind of software for a news agregate rather than actual forum software and think it quite a joke that anyone thinks it is functional or robust enough to handle being an actual forum in this day and age. it is outdated and out moded by at least a decade for being āforumā software.
truncating lines to reduce the amount of space by an enter has 2 functions, reducing the amount of space in the database for a post, which defeats the purpose of letting people post and formatting their own posts, and reducing the amount of space for scrolling to prevent āwhitespaceā bloat, and this software already has enough whitespace bloat that I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would do that.
As was said though, this āNEWā forum was made for mobile devices, so instead of having a desktop environment, everyone now is supposed to use the forums from a mobile device because that is really all this nonsense supports and was made to compose and view only on mobile devices.
The spellchecker within Firefox still works for me. I canāt remember what browser you use, @shadzar? I believe you use the same browser. But, it does work for me. If that didnāt work, Iād be mad about that.
Firefox 32.0.3, Up-to-date
But, I do understand why some limits may be put in place regarding skipping lines. If that is the mindset though, the user should still be able to skip at least 2 lines without the limit kicking in. Only makes sense.
Have a VOD user trying to access the forums with a Nook device, but is unable to do so. Cannot make him understand that he needs to give us more info to go on.
Here are his posts:
Yeah, I just ran into this today while playing around with relatively new old posts.
I can see the viability in it, if for nothing else, than to stop newly edited threads from registering on the Latest Topics or Unread lists.
But really, this gets rather annoying and is nothing but a nuisance as we still try to figure out the forum and testing things out to see what works and what doesnāt as far as posts go.
Since this forum is built to be used on mobile devices, I have to ask: why is it so slow on them (so much JavaScript, which doesnāt jibe with mobile) and why does it have prompts on mobile to perform tasks that are impossible on mobile, like pasting or dragging-and-dropping pictures?
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Tried again to access the forums using my tablet (actually, a Nook Color) and no goācannot even look at the forums using the browser at all, even typing in the entire URL just gives me a blank pageā¦[/quote]
OhHo!
Going back to this for a momentā¦
It looks like double ā!!ā donāt stick though.
I was skimming through the huge Notifications list (most of it being system auto-download dump when the posts got transferred to Discourse) and I noticed my Upotte!! thread only had one ā!ā, so I clicked on it and checked the edits, sure enough, one was deleting the second ā!ā.
So I tried to edit it back into the title, and found, just like ā.ā, double ā!!ā wonāt stick, only single ā!ā.