If I'm writing replies to multiple threads, the replies end up in the wrong threads. Put the target thread into the POST - or GET request (whichever you're using)instead.
Just for clarity, an example of current functionality.
- I'm browsing the forums, and open a couple of threads in tabs.
- I start writing a reply to a thread, lose my train of though, take a look at other threads.
- Start writing a reply in the other thread
- Come back to original thread, finish the reply and post.
- and find out the reply went into the other thread instead of the original thread instead.Annoying.
+1.
This is not 1999 anymore. People use browsers with tabs, especially since the forum is so sloooooow,
This has happened to me a couple times too. I was trying to figure out how in the world did one of my posts go into another thread I had opened in a tab? Seems to happen when the refresh / submit cycle is slow and something bleeds over. Cookie clutter.
Changing the described behavior is on the todo list.
Good things.
If the to-do list is looking under weight :-), fixing the problem with losing posts that the user spent too much time before posting/updating would be a good one as well.(I imagine changing the posting process, so the post/update buttons no longer lead to a new page, but remain on the current one with the editable text intact until it receives CONFIRMATION of the successful post... i.e. if the session timed out, it can just re-initiate one with the entered text intact, invisible to the user. )
as always, thanks for the good work!
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fixing the problem with losing posts that the user spent too much time before posting/updating would be a good one as well.
Oh, man, Gary, +1 bajillion to this idea. I am coming to the next Paizocon. I will buy you steak if you stop this from happening somehow. I'm serious, steak. You pick the place. if you're a vegan...well, then, I guess tofu.
as always, thanks for the good work!
Agreed.
If you could also figure out a way for the "quote" button to quote the entire post instead of just parts of it (for long posts), that would be awesome :)
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If you could also figure out a way for the "quote" button to quote the entire post instead of just parts of it (for long posts), that would be awesome :)
Well, that one was an intentional design decision way back at the beginning of the boards. We were annoyed how, on many other boards, people would quote back a 10,000 word post, just adding a "+1" at the bottom. While limiting the quote length doesn't prevent the "+1", it does at least limit the amount of redundant material you have to scroll past to see it.
But maybe that decision is worth revisiting.
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If you could also figure out a way for the "quote" button to quote the entire post instead of just parts of it (for long posts), that would be awesome :)
Well, that one was an intentional design decision way back at the beginning of the boards. We were annoyed how, on many other boards, people would quote back a 10,000 word post, just adding a "+1" at the bottom. While limiting the quote length doesn't prevent the "+1", it does at least limit the amount of redundant material you have to scroll past to see it.
But maybe that decision is worth revisiting.
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Okay, that makes sense. I'll just keep copy/paste'ing the parts I want to quote then :)
Whew. I thought someone was complaining about Lilith.
We were annoyed how, on many other boards, people would quote back a 10,000 word post, just adding a "+1" at the bottom.
Lord do I hate that. Not so much the '+1', but the need to quote a wall of text just to respond to one point. And then the first person will quote the entire thing again.
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If you could also figure out a way for the "quote" button to quote the entire post instead of just parts of it (for long posts), that would be awesome :)
Well, that one was an intentional design decision way back at the beginning of the boards. We were annoyed how, on many other boards, people would quote back a 10,000 word post, just adding a "+1" at the bottom. While limiting the quote length doesn't prevent the "+1", it does at least limit the amount of redundant material you have to scroll past to see it.
But maybe that decision is worth revisiting.
No, I also hate when people quote entire posts needlessly. I vote keep things the way they are in this case.
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I tried to put in this nice, level-based table, and discovered that the code automatically cleans whitespace ( I was using tabs for columns. ) Any chance of getting some sort of a tab or whitespace bbcode? Or tables?
Multiple spaces in html are actually collapsed at the browser level. We actually keep them, even though you don't see them. (For example, there are a bunch of spaces in between these words, which you can probably see if you look at the html source for this page.)
Converting them to non-breaking spaces would keep them intact at the browser level, but would cause new problems elsewhere. And there's still no good universally respected html equivalent of a tab character.
The best bet would probably be tables, but that gets pretty complex fast, and I'm confident that you'd see a bunch of badly mangled tables for every one that somebody manages to do perfectly.
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If you could also figure out a way for the "quote" button to quote the entire post instead of just parts of it (for long posts), that would be awesome :)
Well, that one was an intentional design decision way back at the beginning of the boards. We were annoyed how, on many other boards, people would quote back a 10,000 word post, just adding a "+1" at the bottom. While limiting the quote length doesn't prevent the "+1", it does at least limit the amount of redundant material you have to scroll past to see it.
But maybe that decision is worth revisiting.
Quoting a limited part in the edit window doesn't bother me, as you say it limits the length of generic replies. It would be a huge help though if it showed the entire text above when you are editing so you could cuy/ paste bits to quote.
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It would be a huge help though if it showed the entire text above when you are editing so you could cuy/ paste bits to quote.
We show (or at least should be showing) the previous 25 posts above the edit window. I guess if you're replying to something more than 25 posts ago that might be a problem...
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If you could also figure out a way for the "quote" button to quote the entire post instead of just parts of it (for long posts), that would be awesome :)
Well, that one was an intentional design decision way back at the beginning of the boards. We were annoyed how, on many other boards, people would quote back a 10,000 word post, just adding a "+1" at the bottom. While limiting the quote length doesn't prevent the "+1", it does at least limit the amount of redundant material you have to scroll past to see it.
But maybe that decision is worth revisiting.
Maybe you could have something like this.
When you quote a big post it quotes it all for you. Then if you try and post it won't let you with a error saying the quote is to big. Then one could remove the unneeded parts of the quote.
The only reason I suggest this is, sometimes I want to quote part of something in a big post. I hit quote and plan to par it down, but the part I want to quote isn't displayed and I have to then do it manually. Not a major deal but if the site helped me do it, it would be nice.
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It would be a huge help though if it showed the entire text above when you are editing so you could cuy/ paste bits to quote.We show (or at least should be showing) the previous 25 posts above the edit window. I guess if you're replying to something more than 25 posts ago that might be a problem...
It comes up often enough that I find myself opening a second window to track back to the source message on occasion.
Showing the previous 25 is a big help.
+1No, I also hate when peopl.If you could also figure out a way for the "quote" button to quote the entire post instead of just parts of it (for long posts), that would be awesome :)
Well, that one was an intentional design decision way back at the beginning of the boards. We were annoyed how, on many other boards, people would quote back a 10,000 word post, just adding a "+1" at the bottom. While limiting the quote length doesn't prevent the "+1", it does at least limit the amount of redundant material you have to scroll past to see it.
But maybe that decision is worth revisiting.
+1
Kidding! Perhaps some sort of Like button similar to FAQ and Flag buttons (although I realize we are getting enough of those buttons around) would possible prevent the pointless +1 posts.
PS: Normally I trim quotes to only the relevant section, but I intentionally left this one full for effect. I don't mind the auto-trimmed quotes.
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[Perhaps some sort of Like button similar to FAQ and Flag buttons (although I realize we are getting enough of those buttons around) would possible prevent the pointless +1 posts
We have toyed with the idea of "like" or "favorite" buttons on posts, but I'm a little concerned that some might end up gaming the system for whatever perceived popularity accrues with a heavily favorited or liked post, rather than engaging in conversation. (A community of thousands of gamers gaming a system? No way that'd ever happen...)
Gary, what about adding a button to the reply page that reveals the entire text of the quoted reply (perhaps in a separate, collapsed textarea) so that someone could perform copypasta with all the BBcode still intact? You could then trim the standard quoted amount down even further since people who would need to quote larger sections could then do so selectively.
BTW, any chance of making it so that when we quote a post containing die roll results we actually SEE the results and the arrow character doesn't get replaced by an ampersand code?
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It comes up often enough that I find myself opening a second window to track back to the source message on occasion.
Showing the previous 25 is a big help.
If I'm going to be incorporating quotes from a long post, or an older post in a thread, I just right-click the Reply button and open it in a new window.
One more thing: Could you make some kind of symbol to identify that a thread has been locked?