Yeah, I noticed that just after my exchange with @GreysonCarlisle. That should work fine.
My only objection to it is that the blockquote markup doesn’t use tags, per se, but indenting marks at the start of paragraphs and between paragraphs. If you add a blockquote, and then want to edit it down, you’ll have to be careful not to disturb the indenting marks.
I realize that all of this is largely the product of a new board, and that I’ll probably get used to it, but I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy person, and what’s annoying me about this new format is that so much of its functionality seems counterintuitive even if (perhaps especially if) you’re used to technology, and some aspects also seem designed to reduce user control over their own browser, like the fact that hitting CTRL-F no longer opens the page search bar at the bottom of my Firefox browser, but opens the thread search function of Discourse.
This sort of keyboard functionality can be great, but it should be user-controlled, so I can choose to retain control over my own keyboard shortcuts for my browser, rather than have them hijacked by this website.
Is there a way to remove “suggested topics” at the end of posts? I googled it and other people on discourse have asked this question before but it seems some coding is involved.
Stupid question: How do I start a new thread? I can’t find what’s probably perfectly obvious.
And why is it when I click on a thread, the top of the page says, “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private,” but the page is there and functioning?
someone just bumped a very old Cosby thread in the Pit (there was news on his case today). Before the current post, the last post was from Feb 2005. The current post says “13m”; how long ago madriscool posted in it; however, the previous post (& all of the other ones) have “Feb '05”. I know someone posted a screenshot of a “15 yr” ago entry but it looks like we are able to have when it was posted (June 23 @ 4:35PM) as opposed to how long ago it was posted (13m).
Please, please, please put it on the punchlist to make all posts show the date/time of the post as the old vBulliten board did rather than how long ago like Discourse is doing right now.
Go into the main page for that forum, and hunt around that page for a ‘new topic’ button. Or maybe a box. It’ll be somewhere on the page, I’m pretty sure; but it may be an elongated box, or it may be a round button, and it might be any of various colors, and it may be at the bottom right, or maybe at the top right, or for all I know on the left side or somewhere off in Australia (I’m in New York State, so that would be fairly far off.) Where it is, and what it looks like, seems to depend on the theme you’re using.
Yes, please do this if at all possible. Do this EVERY place a post time stamp appears! In the meantime, if you hover your mouse over a time stamp (any place you see such a time stamp), you will see the actual date-and-time. (If you are using a mobile device with no mouse, somebody somewhere posted another equivalent way to accomplish the same thing.)
ETA: What’s this “15 yr ago” screen shot you’re talking about? Are you referring to that one line, just before the new post, that says “15 YEARS LATER”? That’s injected there by our friendly Discourse nanny-bot when zombie threads are resurrected!
I would disagree with this. You have no real control over Firefox shortcuts anyway, which is notorious for doing weird things when you accidentally hit a shortcut key (such as popping up a diagnostic screen at bottom of the page) and there’s no way to turn them off! Ctrl-F is fairly universal across many different apps for “Find” and bringing up the app’s search facility, like in Word. One could have a philosophical argument about whether a browser like Firefox is an app, or whether in the case of Discourse it’s merely a platform for an app, Discourse being the actual app. In this case, you have the flexibility of either approach: hit Ctrl-F, and you get the Discourse search popup; hit it again, and you get the Firefox search. The latter may not work as expected, though, because of infinite-scroll which may not have cached the entire thread. So really, I don’t see much of a basis for complaint.
This is idiotic. Firefox is the program installed on my computer that I use to display web pages. For every other website I’ve ever viewed on the internet using Firefox, CTRL-F opens the Firefox page search, so that’s what it should do for this website too. Period.
My browser just starts searching when I start typing - on every other site. Here I get some random popup depending what letter happens to be in my query.
No, that can’t be right, not as long as infinite-scroll remains. The browser’s search function and infinite-scroll are fundamentally incompatible with each other and mutually exclusive, because the browser’s search only searches what’s in the current page, and with infinite scroll, only part of the thread is there at any one time (for a long thread). To make search work at all (beyond the limits of the current post you are looking at, plus and minus a few), the Discourse app must necessarily hijack the search function and implement its own.
You could argue, perhaps, that Discourse should use a different keyboard shortcut for its search (and in fact it does, just type / to start a Discourse search), but the browser’s Ctrl-F search still won’t work right.
Note the icon at the bottom of each post that looks like three dots. Click on that. Then several additional icons magically appear. One of those looks suspiciously like a trash can.
ETA: I saw where someone mentioned that deleting your post is NOT subject to the 5-minute time limit. I haven’t tried it myself.
