I use it because the edit window in very small on my phone and I want to see a larger slice of the post. Apparently I now don’t have that option. This sucks! Oh well, at least I can edit after the fact.
Also, scroll has been goofy where I can’t scroll the edit window with the keyboard active. That does seem fixed.
Yes, a big problem. We will all be mistakenly adding our words to quoted posts.
I’m also noticing that any word or phrase blur-spoiled now appears on its own line. Not a huge deal, but it looks inelegant.
You can still spoil individual words in Markdown mode.
I just tried to use the [quote ] code and the > for a quotation and neither worked.
This is a test.
Quote function worked.
[Quote]
Test
[/quote]
Quote tags, not so much.
Testing
Not so.
Test
Test
So moving slide in the upper left back to markdown helps.
That’s quoting from within à thread. I wanted to insert a quotation from a news article.
Man, things sure are massively fucked right now. Any attempt to put in hard returns results in a space automatically skipped, such as
above, and the line cannot be deleted either.
Here’s the post that I’m talking about:
Are you typing in the [quote] and [/quote] manually or using the button? If you want to type them manually, switch to Markdown mode. Otherwise, highlight the text and click the quote button.
[spoiler]Blur test[/spoiler]
ETA: Nope.
And with no Preview, can’t tell until it’s posted.
That’s a pretty facile argument that can be used to defend any change, whether good, bad, or indifferent, as great progress.
But that isn’t so if it’s just change for the sake of change, or a step backward, or two arguably beneficial changes plus three that make things indisputably worse. Or, changes that no one asked for which will make the SDMB inaccessible to a whole generation of older browsers, as discussed in a different thread.
That said, I think Discourse is a well-designed platform that’s far better than what we had before. I’d just prefer to see less constant tinkering with the UI.
No, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is the facile argument that can be used to argue against any change, whether good, bad, or indifferent. I’m just pointing out its absurdity. I’d never argue that all changes are beneficial, but the state of not being overtly broken is not an argument that no changes should ever be made.
I’m on my iPhone. When I open the Reply box, there is no quote button, just bold, italics and links buttons, and that’s only when I’ve highlighted text in the thread to quote.
if I hit the Reply button to start a post in the thread, I don’t get any buttons, just a bare box.
So I always just type the quote and end quote code in brackets.
Hmm, weird. iPhone bug, maybe? On my Android, the reply box looks about the same as on desktop. Can you see the Markdown mode toggle?
BTW, you can just prefix a quote with > as a bit of a shortcut. Maybe that’ll work for you.
What is the Markdown button?
Nope, the > doesn’t work either. I tried that in my post in the RFK thread and it didn’t do anything.
If it is an iPhone bug, it just started today.
It’s actually not a bad argument when dealing with very complex systems. The implication is that without comprehensive regression testing there’s a real risk that putative improvements in one area will break something somewhere else that might more than outweigh the “improvements”. And that without comprehensive usability testing, the UI changes might make things worse for many users. My cites for this: (1) just about anything ever released by Microsoft, and (2) recent changes and planned changes in Discourse.
IOW, without rigorous testing protocols, “tinkering” is generally a bad idea that will break stuff.
The Markdown editor select button is the “A” at the extreme left of the menu bar in the “Reply” window, which selects the basic editor. It then turns into a button with a black “M+” label that you can click to take you back to the WYSIWYG editor which is the default.
That’s weird. I didn’t have that set of buttons in the Reply box when I replied to DrStrangelove in my previous post.
Aha! That appears to have worked. But why were those buttons not there just a few posts ago?
And, they still don’t have a quote button. Just B , I, Tt, and chain links.
Put your finger on the toolbar and drag left. The other buttons are there, but your screen resolution is too zoomed to see them without scrolling.