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leiger

05 Jun 2010 00:22

Regular users of the forum have most likely already noticed this, but I'm posting this to announce the changes to anyone that doesn't watch the website that closely.

Yesterday, I added the following features to the forum:

• Each thread has an "Attach Files" link. All site members have permission to upload files on any thread, so use it for images in your posts or other files you wish to upload.
• Every post has a "Quote" button. Use it to quote someone else's post… especially if you're replying in a different thread and want to link back to their original post.
• Every post has a "Permalink" button. Similar to how the Quote option links back to someone's post, except that this is just a link that you can add to your bookmarks or give to someone in a PM or email.

Please only use the 'attach files' link for uploading files that you are going to use in that thread. If you're going to use the file elsewhere, please upload it to your profile page.

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titen96

05 Jun 2010 00:38

i noticed it yesterday on this and your editor's forum

"At first, this completely shocked me. Then I found a neat picture of a bunny and posted it at the top of the article. Hello there, bunny!"

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leiger

05 Jun 2010 02:46

Would you ever use them? The Quote option isn't perfect, but it's the closest thing I can make in Wikidot at the moment. The Permalink button does the same thing it does in every forum… but not many people ever use that anyway.

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fingerz

05 Jun 2010 03:29

i like it leiger! much better than uploading a tonne of files to a profile page.

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ShadowValentine

05 Jun 2010 06:59

Why do I need my profile page? o.o

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jameswalker85

05 Jun 2010 08:26

That's pretty clever, what you've done with the profile page link there. I'm on to you…

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PKSeven

05 Jun 2010 10:20

Tried the quote buttons, not sure if they agreed with me.

Shadow: The profile page was in case you need to upload anything that didn't need to be restricted to one thread, I believe.

And James, I noticed what he did there too…clever ;)

Although my name was lower case.

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leiger

05 Jun 2010 15:21

jameswalker85 wrote:
That's pretty clever, what you've done with the profile page link there. I'm on to you…

LOL :) People think I'm speaking directly to them, just because it happens to change depending on who's looking at it.

I could have some fun with this, if I disguise it in the middle of another page… ;-)

ProtoKun7 wrote:
Tried the quote buttons, not sure if they agreed with me.

Shadow: The profile page was in case you need to upload anything that didn't need to be restricted to one thread, I believe.

And James, I noticed what he did there too…clever ;)

Although my name was lower case.

The four lines of code that you see are meant to be there. It's the only way I could get anything resembling a 'quote' feature. Just copy that code, create a new reply and paste it in. The only problem is that it includes their quotes too… so it can very easily lead to quote blocks all over the place.

And yes, that's what I meant with the profiles.

I'll see if I can fix that lowercase name… let me know if it works or not when you next look at this thread.

- leiger

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PKSeven

06 Jun 2010 14:04

Ah, I see…
and yes, the username is formatted properly now.

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leiger

06 Jun 2010 23:25

Something to try if you want to test the Quote feature without actually putting it into your post, is to paste it in then hit "Preview". You can always delete it before you save the post.

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titen96

07 Jun 2010 00:31

can quotes be done for chat?

"At first, this completely shocked me. Then I found a neat picture of a bunny and posted it at the top of the article. Hello there, bunny!"

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leiger

07 Jun 2010 06:13

Not sure why you'd want to use quotes in chat… ?

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