[07-MAR-2016] Current status of BLF upgrade process

Thank you RC, yes I am aware of that facility. But the R-Click context menu doesn't require you to move the mouse pointer from where you are to the top.

And it was available previously, & it is a normal feature on OSs & forums.

Ooh!

Now I wast a R-Click context menu, too. :D

:beer: Thank you sā€¦ā€¦ Wait. No.

You are evil sb. You left out my favorite smiley of all.

Also, it appears, you are a Grinch who hates Christmas.

Well, at least the beer is back to its normal size. All is right with the world. Good night.

Oops, thanks a lot for letting me know. I originally had it configured that way, and then proceeded to break my own configuration. :D Should be fixed now. The browser's context spellchecker should also work now.

You bet.

Oops. Iā€™m afraid itā€™s a bit difficult to add them back now. The configuration section of the Smiley module is refreshingly devoid of all semblance of design and usability.

Butā€¦ when there is time, after other things, right? Rightā€¦? :(( :((

By the way, have I told you what a wonderful Admin you are recently? :slight_smile: Exceedingly kind, intelligent and handsome too. Not one to forsake even a poor little ghost.

At the risk of looking like Iā€™m calling someone out (there are plenty of examples, this is just handy) is there any way to limit the amount of quoted text?

Post 265 above looks like this on my phone:

Google Drive link works maybe?

Maybe it doesnā€™t bug anyone else, I feel like quoting the ENTIRE post is rarely required.

I could limit quotes to a certain number of levels, but Iā€™m not sure if everyone would like that.

IMO while the number of quote levels was excessive in your example (fairly minor forum-etiquette issue), the real issue is simply that the forumā€™s styles do not change at all on smaller screen sizes. The margins/spacing in use there exacerbate the issue greatly.

For example, compare these two screenshots:

Some forums limit to the last quote, but i agree that its not an ideal solution. One thing i have noticed is some forums have the link to the quote

One could implement say last 5 quotes, every quote links to its source hence the first of the 5 link to the last one, which would show the previous 5, which links to the previous, so a few clicks can get you to the first post without having the crazy long quotes

Iā€™m sure i am explaining this badly, trying my best

G'Day SB,

SB, it is now working, thank you Very Much.

Ooooopssssss, I saw the <Mark Read> button at top left & I pressed it while in this sub-forum, BUT it marked the entire forum including all sub-forums as read.

I assumed it would Only mark the current sub-forum as read (as it did previously).

AFAIK, the only <Mark Read> button that marked the entire forum (including sub-forums) as read was in the "root" forum ie: http://budgetlightforum.com/forum

Is the current behaviour wrong, Or?

Thank you Very Much,

George

Iā€™m for a reasonable limit on quotes. I donā€™t know what it would take to ā€˜tileā€™ them in a stack (click on what you want to see) of to collapse them by default then add an ā€œexpandā€ button to read them.

Thatā€™s really been my biggest issue since I signed up here so Iā€™d say youā€™re doing very well indeed SB.

Phil

I just did a quick test and found that itā€™s fairly simple to hide any quotes deeper than N levels. I tried to put in a placeholder for ā€œ(quote omitted)ā€ instead though, and it didnā€™t work. So itā€™s easy to do if you donā€™t mind not knowing whether there are deeper quote levels.

I also made the dark theme use less padding around quotes, so it doesnā€™t turn into a vertical column so quickly.

With it set to N=3 (limit to three levels of quoting), the same post looks like this:

One big downside of doing this is that it might encourage people to quote even deeper, since they might not be able to see that theyā€™re including so many levels.

Edit: FWIW, this can be done as an independent stylesheet so you can get the same effect regardless of what theme youā€™re using. If you want, you can try it here.

Oops, sorry about that! Youā€™re right that it would probably be clearer to only have it in the root /forum page. Itā€™s changed now.

For my part I do my very best to limit the amount of text I quote. When a heavily nested quote appears in my quote it is because I believe that the context is either very useful or entirely necessary for understanding what I am writing. Sometimes in busy/large threads with multiple conversations a big quote is easier for everyone.

I feel that an arbitrary limit on the number of quote levels is a bad thing.

I do think that Javascript could easily collapse some of the quoted posts in an expandable box. That would be worth investigating IMO. Iā€™m not volunteering.

+1

OK, I re-enabled automatically subscribing to threads that you participate in. There is a new setting in your user profile under "Subscriptions" if you want to disable this feature.

Please note that email notification are not working yet. That will take considerably more time yet. Sorry for the delay!

What about broken smiley images? IIRC the Advanced Post Editor may have been inserting emoticons directly as images in the past. I could be way off base on that one. See this post for example: Building a short arc searclight - #20 by ImagioX1

I agree. Itā€™s inherently a violation of scope for the forum or stylesheet to alter the content of peopleā€™s posts. If someone makes a mess, it should show the mess accurately. But on a per-user basis it can be nice to have an override switch. So thereā€™s a depth-limit stylesheet, a cheap band-aid for when people are sick of the mess and want it fixed now.

Deep quoting can sometimes be useful, and Iā€™d prefer not to eliminate it entirely.

I try to make sure that the only unnecessary data in my posts is my own incessant rambling. Sorry about that.