Well, it was kind of a reply to the theme of the topic which as defined by the first post is..
@joe_edwards said:
Discourse, amirite?
Well, it was kind of a reply to the theme of the topic which as defined by the first post is..
@joe_edwards said:
Discourse, amirite?
I guess that's true, if you think of the "jump to post" up arrow on quoted blocks as an anchor. Open it as an independent meta topic here.
Literally the first time I have ever heard the request. And I've heard a lot of .. things.
I am not opposed to infinite sub-expansion of quotes, I just think it's really niche.
There is one caveat to the above paragraph: to reduce noise, we suppress this indicator if the post is directly under the post it is replying to. It is super common for replies to chain to the post above them, and I believe that locality makes this connection clear. You can turn this suppression off in the settings if it's bothersome
To elaborate, that suppression is also only in effect if there is only one reply and it is directly under the post.
Errr.. no, since you haven't actually navigated to a new page, you just "scrolled up". By that logic, if you scroll up on a page and want to scroll back down, the back button should undo your scroll?
That's true, you cannot expand a quote, then also expand a sub-quote inside that quote.
We could possibly make that work, but would it really be useful? This is honestly the first time I would have ever heard such a request in over a year of Discourse being a public project.
That's asking a hell of a lot of your readers, to go so many levels deep just to understand what you're talking about.
Why can I only reply to one post? Why can't I make a multi-reply post?
Like so:
If the post has quoted text, it is considered a reply to that post. Yes this means one post can "reply" to as many other posts as it contains quoted replies to.
If the post has no quoted text, but the user pressed the "reply" button on a specific post, it is considered a reply to that post. Since there is no quoted text to hint at which post this is a reply to, we place the "in reply to" expandable button at the top right of the post.
(There is one caveat to the above paragraph: to reduce noise, we suppress this indicator if the post is directly under the post it is replying to. It is super common for replies to chain to the post above them, and I believe that locality makes this connection clear. You can turn this suppression off in the settings if it's bothersome.)
These connections are bidirectional. So if you see a quote expansion, or an "in reply to", you'll also be able to find a corresponding "reply" expansion on the thing it was in reply to.
If a post is not a reply to any individual post, either by quoting or clicking the reply buttons on other posts, it is a general reply to the topic.
Ohh - look it takes me to the post concerned
I think deeply nested quoting is kind of an artifact of the older system.
Gravatar also has to go
Give us signatures
a working scrollbar
how do I get the damned thing to show me threads that I haven't read all the way?
We don't generally track topics for users unless they
@joe_edwards said:
a keystroke no one will ever think to try on a website
I like this site, and this community! We want Discourse to be awesome for you.
Alex and I are friends from way back, even though there was some... unfortunate redacted .. that happened in our prior business relationships. All good now though!
Look, Atwood, I want Home to go the first post. Not the top of the page whereupon it will ajaxify the previous posts.
My work PC lags horribly when it AJAXes the next posts, and I have no idea how far in the thread I've read. I think, Oh, the scrollbar is almost at the bottom so I have to be close. Psych! There's 25 more posts I didn't tell you about!
it doesn't tell you who the last poster was from the main page.
βββ Last poster can be the first poster too, which is what you're seeing there.
more than one
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This is a misconfiguration: the site admins need to specify the small logo, which would be just the face of the wtf guy, e.g this:
vs this
(above image is pngout'ed, and has alpha channel, and is suitable for use provided it's uploaded into the staff images topic for this purpose.)
PhpBB? Seriously?
The actual founders of the project are here interacting with you and listening to your feedback.
Wait wait hold on. Guys, I just got a message from the PHPBB devs and they told me to relay it to you, because they care deeply about you, this forum, and your happiness. Here it is:
;)
Here at Discourse, we actually pretend to care about you "users" and your "needs". Your happiness is job.. #45:
- play Battlefield 4
- pay our taxes
- listen to user feedback
GEE! If only HTML had meta-tags you could use to tell the browser about available RSS feeds! Wouldn't that be a handy thing!!!!!
<link href="http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/how-do-i-get-rss-links/246.rss" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed of 'How do I get RSS links?'" type="application/rss+xml" />
Not sure why browsers would have trouble detecting that. Is there some spec about RSS detection we're not meeting?
Strangely, the End key seems to work correctly, at least from my testing.
Yeah this is a regression sigh the home key is not functioning properly.
You can press ? to get a list of experimental keyboard shortcuts.
I struggle to find a rational reason to allow quoting of quoting of quotes of quotes.
That said, here are the ways to quote a post:
Highlight some text in a post, click the "quote reply" button that appears above it. Repeat as many times as you like to multi-quote.
Highlight some text in a post, and click the "Reply" or "Reply as New Topic" buttons.
In the editor, click the first button, which is "quote entire post".
Note that you can even go to a different topic and the editor will be retained.
We also save regular drafts of your posts, so as long as you've typed for a bit, your work is saved on the server. You could power off your computer in the middle of typing, drive across town to a different computer, and when you load this topic on that computer your half-composed post would appear automatically.
And now, here are 100 ways to love a cat.
Or separating people's posts with some kind of visual indication, so the entire page isn't just a single column of undifferentiated text blobbed-in with the header and footer
Left is default Discourse, right is this site. @apapadimoulis I recommend changing that back to the default -- or even making it darker if that's what people prefer coming from Ye Olde Community Server.
the preview window doesn't scroll with the typing window
https://meta.discourse.org/t/syncing-the-editor-viewport-scroll/13249
We removed it for now, but my preferred "let's try something simple to sync the editor and preview viewports first" was vetoed by @sam in favor of said hellish complexity for something perfect, so you can talk to him about that..
because of the endless scrolling you can't search a topic (at least through Ctrl+F)
I grab the scrollbar handle and drag it to the top of the page
Animated GIF avatars are possible with a site setting boolean, but strongly not recommended if you value your sanity, or the sanity of others.
Found "allow duplicate topic titles" under Settings > Postings; currently disabled
There's also an entropy check to avoid noise titles.
@joe_edwards said:
It's sporadically marking read posts as unread for me now.
This is great. If you can find any more exploits let us know. @morbiuswilters PM me with your mailing address if you want a letter bomb stickers.
You can use a local avatar in your profile.
Over time, we've come to agree that the gravatar approach isn't the best, because...
gravatar only caches avatars for 5 minutes, we're guessing because users complain when they change their avatar and it doesn't propagate to the entire Internet immediately. But this is terrible for performance.
as a result of the above, gravatar becomes a kind of "ping" to see where you are.
the MD5 hash of email address issue
The good news is that we're working on a change to produce local avatars as a standard default feature and drop gravatar. That should hopefully roll out by the end of this week, or worst case, next week.
See:
(although we are actually using images for now, as it ends up being simpler in the code paths.)
This may happen if you're only adding whitespace to a post.