Wild stuff. If you remove yourself from a conversation, do your messages leave with you, such that the other participants no longer see them? Or do they remain?
They would remain.
So, if itâs just to reduce clutter, archival or self-removal can be used.
If itâs something that you no longer want the other user to see, then deletion and/or editing of your PM posts can be performed.
I think too many visual cues become overwhelming and paradoxically make it more difficult to draw attention to things that warrant it. Think of highlighting the majority of a text on a page vs only relevant selections.
Case in point: the bookmark icon generally seems good to me, except that it gets obscured by similar rectangular shapes and colors at the front of many thread titles.
If possible, moving the icon to the end of the thread could help it stand out more, and maybe giving the icon a slightly different color if thatâs not enough.
Iâm open for anything that lets the bookmarked threads stand out more as they do right now because at the moment they donât, if you scroll over the list of threads and are not looking for them you simply wonât see them.
Since these are threads that are really important to me I want to notice them right away.
Hi there @Valynor and @phouton , I think I might have found a decent compromise between both extremes, could you please check out your bookmarked topics in the Latest topics list again?
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Perfect on the dark BLF theme.
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bookmarked topics look good in âlatestâ with either blf light or blf dark color schemesâclearly visible without being distracting.
for folks who donât want to miss updates to a bookmarked topic: you can also add tracking or watching, and new posts will appear in âunread.â
Looks good now!
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Deleting other peopleâs copies of things is a huge change from email, and from the previous forumâs behavior. Iâd prefer if it didnât work that way, but it sounds like itâs pretty deeply coded into Discourse. So as a way to mitigate the impact, Iâd really appreciate if the email notifications included the entire message.
How about a bright flaming âBMâ next to the topic?
This uses the heatmap colors, so it should update the colors according to the current theme.
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I know that BM stands for bookmark, but it also stands for bowel movement. 
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Yeah, i now know its means bookmark since i read @ToyKeeper 's post but others would not.
That said the new red bookmark and bolding does pop out well.
I still think it should ideally say [Bookmarked post in thread] to remove ambiguity.
I donât recommend standing for bowel movement.
A flaming BM removes more than ambiguity!
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Fire also gives off lumens. Double win! 
You know being BLF we could get even more creative, perhaps a flashlight logo could be used to represent bookmarks
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Itâs probably been mentioned several times but the post editor is really sparse. No tool button for strikethrough, underline text, font size, font color, etc.
is two tildes front and back
aaaa bbbb cccc
It is markdown it is worth learning it more and more editors use it.
Yea, definitely not as convenient as the old forumâs editor(s).
I need to reformat some Old-Lumens contest related threads a bit. Thereâs some HTML in my future, it would seem.
Yeah, itâs definitely worth learning the basics of HTML and/or Markdown, since theyâre so widely used and the most important parts are pretty easy.
With HTML, formatting is done with tags, which is just a word inside of <>'s. One tag to begin a formatted area, one tag to end it, and the end has an extra slash inside.
Markdown is just a subset of HTML, with more convenient syntax which looks more natural when read raw without being interpreted or rendered.
Here are some of the things they can doâŚ
| Example | HTML | Markdown | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bold text | <b>bold text</b> | **bold** | ||||||
| italic text | <i>italic text</i> | *italic* | ||||||
| <strike>strike-through</strike> | ~~strike-through~~ | |||||||
| <strike><b><i>nested</i></b></strike> | ~~***nested***~~ | |||||||
code span |
<code>code span</code> | `code span` | ||||||
Top-Level Heading |
<h1>Top-Level Heading</h1> | # Top-Level Heading | ||||||
6th-Level Heading | <h6>6th-Level Heading</h6> | ###### 6th-Level Heading | ||||||
| Link | <a href="http://example.com/">Link</a> | [Link](http://example.com) | ||||||
 |
<img alt="pepper icon" src="http://toykeeper.net/torches/other/pepper-icon.png" /> |  | ||||||
| big text | <big>big text</big> | [not in Discourse] | ||||||
| small text | <small>small text</small> | [not in Discourse] | ||||||
| basesuperscriptsubscript | base<sup>superscript</sup><sub>subscript</sub> | [not in Discourse] | ||||||
| <hr /> | --- | |||||||
quote |
<blockquote>quote</blockquote> | > quote | ||||||
|
<ul> <li>a</li> <li>b</li> <li>c</li> </ul> |
- a - b - c |
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<ol> <li>a</li> <li>b</li> <li>c</li> </ol> |
1. a 1. b 1. c |
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<table> <thead> <tr><th>a</th><th>b</th><th>c</th></tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td></tr> </tbody> </table> |
| a | b | c | | - | - | - | | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
As a general rule, HTML can do more but Markdown is easier to type. HTML is the native language being used, while Markdown is basically âsyntactic sugarâ to make HTML features a bit more convenient.
As for changing the color, I donât think Discourse allows that without add-ons. Probably because setting colors manually usually means half the users will have a harder time reading it, like how dark-mode users complained when sb set a background color for bookmarked topics.
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Thanks a lot for that table @ToyKeeper .
Speaking of tables, Discourse does support them in Markdown (technically âGithub Flavored Markdown [GFM]â):
| Left-aligned | Center-aligned | Right-aligned |
| :--- | :---: | ---: |
| left aligned | center | right |
| left aligned | center | right |
⌠produces:
| Left-aligned | Center-aligned | Right-aligned |
|---|---|---|
| left | center | right |
| left | center | right |
I do have some other options to make the post editor expose more Markdown formatting stuff. I just need to make sure that the chosen option is fairly future-proof, and I havenât had time to fully research and test it yet.
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