Everything just changed. Straight Dope Lite… looks good.
Just curious, what is the blue dot next to certain threads? It disappears after I click on the thread, but it’s not on all unread threads.
I’m kinda thinking the little blue dot means a new thread that you have NOT even opened yet. Not entirely sure of that. ETA: But I’m not sure how it applies to old threads that got imported from the old board.
And now: Has anyone figured out yet what the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t check mark is, that intermittently appears at the bottom on the screen while composing a post?
@TubaDiva: Do all that, and there’s a BADGE waiting for you! 
(which doesn’t nearly convey what the old SDMB big-smiley did. None of the emojis do, really.)
I can see why user names don’t allow blank spaces or most other punctuation marks. If names have characters like that, then referring to them with @ doesn’t work. For example, @Eyebrows_0f_Doom works, but @Eyebrows 0f Doom wouldn’t work (or, worse, might refer to a different user). Most other punctuation marks would break that too.
Under Interface options, there’s a checkbox option for
“Enable defer to mark topics unread”
What does that mean?
Mr. Natural sez: “If you don’t know by now, LEAVE IT ALONE!”
IIRC, it means that you can defer topics to be marked as read, sorta like marking them unread.
After you’ve read the thread, you press… Shift+U?.. to “defer” them.
I remember that it sometimes works even if you’ve disabled it.
Makes sense! And I like how that feature works to notify a specific user.
Okay, thanks. Probably best left alone, then.
Not certain, but based on other software, my guess would be that it is an indicator that it has saved your current post progress to your drafts.
Where do I preview 
i don’t see itpost?
Oh i see it now the tv in the lr box. Thanks!
If you’re on a mobile device, click the little icon that looks like a TV.
Thanks! This is fun!
Ah, now that seems the most reasonable explanation.
Oh, sweet!
We now have a Forever and ever, amen! setting for our block lists!
I highlighted and hit the gray quote button in a couple places - trying to multi quote - and now I can’t find them.
They’re not in your reply box? It’ll place the quote wherever your cursor is in the reply box, so it might have gotten scrambled up.
if they were in my reply box I couldn’t find them.
is there more than one reply box???