Okay, a few more things in response to suggestions upthread or on the other one:
Pagination data on the links
[Esc] takes focus off of the editor
The main menu is now the only ‘sticky’ bit, not the site name / board name / thread title. I don’t think there was a good reason there, so thanks for the feedback, as it seems all upside
Not sure I follow, but I think we’re maybe mixing up a couple of concepts:
That there’s an option to edit the poll options for a period before voting starts
And, that users can change their votes when the poll is running—which is what you have set
it’s not really practical/workable to allow editing of poll options while the poll is running, because you’d be potentially:
Deleting people’s votes
Adding options they might have voted for if they’d seen them
Editing the meaning of something they did vote for, that might change their vote
etc.
The last bullet there (sticky menu only) is very, very nice. A 100% upgrade to current ILX.
I was going to add my voice to the chorus requesting that the list of bookmarks with unread posts be added to the top of each thread, but with the sticky menu clicking that then clicking on the bookmark list might actually be easier than scrolling to the top and and clicking. I’m going to think about that and would want to hear what others think about that.
Ok, that’s weird. I was replying to your post two posts ago, not the most recent. When I hit reply, it showed that post in the editor as if it were going to be quoted in my post, but when I hit “Post Message”, it only posts the link to your post, which is confusing because you posted again.
Is there a way to have the reply function actually quote the post replied to?
Yes, they have, and it’s on the list.
Tracer, I assume you’re looking on a phone, it collapses some of the information basically to get space back. I could put it in, but equally it’ll use a bunch of vertical space. It only does this when the device you’re looking at it on is < 550px wide.
No, I’m on desktop. Image attached.
After quick testing, I think the Reply function needs some tweaks.
1. The ability to quote the post being replied to (I think I have seen others do this so I think I am just missing something).
2. The ability to edit which part of the quoted post being replied to that appears in your post. I frequently quote only a portion of a longer post and see this dozens of time a day on ILX by others.
When quoting a post that has a quote, the post does not differentiate between the quoted portion and I did not see a way to do this. On ILX, you can just throw in quotes/italics into different portions to differentiate and preserve the original quoted post.
I cannot figure out what the text editor is doing to my posts when I try to incorporate a list. Can we just have the ability to turn that off?
Hi Keith, thanks for all your hard work. I wanted to share my thoughts on reacts, though I may just be repeating things you have already heard by now.
I joined ILX in 2019, and this was one of my first posts:
As someone who just showed up here a few days ago, here are my possibly inaccurate impressions:
1. This place doesn’t seem cliquish or unwelcoming, though clearly the regulars know each other…
PBKR, the quoting is now contextual to remove duplication in the thread. Posts with 5? 7? posts of the reply (I forget the actual number) get the “Replying to…” link. Posts further away get inserted as an abbreviated quote (see this example). The quote editing you’re looking for still hast to be done manually like in old-ILX and I haven’t played around enough with the editor to see how to make it approximate the old functionality.
Ok, that’s weird. I was replying to your post two posts ago, not the most recent.
What I did here was copy the text from your post, edit it down, and then format it as a quote, like in old-ILX. It’s not as fancy as the automatic quoting but it works.
I also edited my post because I accidentally hit the “monospace” format button instead of the quote button, oops
Yes I keep doing that!
What I did here was copy the text from your post, edit it down, and then format it as a quote, like in old-ILX. It’s not as fancy as the automatic quoting but it works.
Definitely going to be the way I reply to posts. I’m not digging that reply function.
Tracer, thanks for the image, it’s helpful, although I have to admit I have spent the last hour tearing my hair out trying to work out how you have managed to get that view, as it really should just kick in at <550px, i.e. mobile phone-sized.
And then I remembered that I added an option in that another user requested to display “Minimal board view”, about half way down on the options page, which presents a good deal less information on the board view—have you by any chance accidentally checked that option?
Yes I do have that ticked!
I have now unticked it. However I think I’ll tick it again because I don’t like the preview text for most recent post on each thread. Not a big deal.
Thanks, at least I know what it is now!
There’s another option to put the new threads table below recently updated threads, if that helps at all.