Forum Modification Wishlist

I applaud you sir. The thing is, I'm not exactly a fan of the Meidos or some of the other weird shit pops up now and again, but what do I do? I don't read the threads, and I don't feel the need to comment something like "KILL IT FIRE". Heck, I do this to a lot of threads I don't give a shit about. Not so hard as it turns out. Nobody should stop being an asshole from time to time (being an asshole every now and again is good for you, it's better than a detox), but to feel some compulsive need to comment on every goddamn time something like this happens is unnecessary and by now really tiresome.

And if people get the impression that "MAI WAIFU" or anything else is being used in any other context than a jokey one: you are wrong.

Hey Lum can you pick 5 random threads to move to a new forum every day for a week or so? I wanna see some heads explode.

You down with OGG?

Yeah, damn Fraunhofer and their patents. Open Source for life.

Vorbis is my wheelman.

Did Soundcloud embedding break or am I just an idiot?

Still working for me.

Weird, just shows up as a white box for me in Chrome. Trying it now in Safari and it works fine. MOVE ALONG.

I'm using Chrome, it shows up for me. Maybe you need to buy a whole new computer.

Or reboot.

Apparently, your tech support philosophy and mine differ greatly.

It appears to have been cookie-related, as whitelisting both BF and Soundcloud appears to have fixed the issue.

Not sure if somebody asked for it already.

I would love to open new tabs from the alerts list.

Middle click?

You mean by default on a left click?

Seems a bit pointless when most (all?) browsers let you right click->open in new tab, or CTRL + left click.

EDIT: or what roBurky said.

Lol i always middle clicked on the full alert i never tried it on the link itself.

Thanks guys !

I would like Lum to implement a facility that dealt with my basic needs (e.g. feeding me, washing me, getting me ready for work) whilst I read the forum. I think I may have a problem.

I'd like to be able to like likes..

I like this, but I don't Like like it, you know?

Recursive Likes? That's would be insanity! Turtles all the way down...

That would tear a hole in the space-like continuum.

Am I to believe you are suggesting... like-likes?

Obviously we need, in addition to the Like button:
- (User) Likes this post as a friend.
- (User) Likes this post. Do you like (User)? Y/N
- (User) Likes this post, with the caveat that this Like may be withdrawn if (Poster) does not Like at least one of (User)'s posts in the next 24 hours.
- Elyscape Likes this post (what? There's like a 66% chance he's going to like any given post anyway!)

Also add, LP likes.

Likes should come in various emotional flavors.

[user] ironically likes this
[user] sympathy likes this
[user] disagrees but appreciates the effort and likes this
[user] agrees and likes this
[user] LOL'ed and likes LOL'ing and so likes this
[user] smishes-and-huggles LP likes this
[user] drunk likes this
[user] sangrily likes this
[user] watching someone get flamed and likes this
[user] Elyscape-likes this (aka spam)

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but is there any chance we could add a button to the compose / edit window to insert spoiler tags?

Agree, that would be helpful. Elyscape, think of all the spider pictures you did not have to see due to spoiler tags !

Edit: On second thought maybe think of something else.

Liking something sangrily is not liking it at all. Such is the way of the grognard.

That like I just gave you is a grimdark like.

Did everybody's bracket keys fall off suddenly?

Sure, we can all enter the tags manually, but what the fuck is this, 1996? (In the grimdark future, there is only Notepad...)

We have a button that can distill content parameters from cluttered URLs off a dozen different websites; we can probably make one that inserts two simple text tags. We have the technology.

If Lum wants to implement such a thing, worry not! You can still be the grizzled hipster / cloud-yeller of spoiler-tagging and do it the old-fashioned way, like you did before it was cool. You can even roll your eyes and make snarky remarks at the kids these days who use GUI controls on their new-fangled high-falootin' interweb forums. Nobody will take that away from you, I promise.

Do you also want a button that you can press to capitalize the next letter?

I enter all my tags manually, but not because I feel like a swanky hipster, rather because the rich text editor didn't/wouldn't support hotkeys and often it added extraneous tags that I didn't need and made everything look awful when I tried to fix any posts that had weird formatting issues. I just got mad at the RTE all the time so to save myself the rage I just disabled it altogether.

Also it never breaks my posts for people using other themes when I copy/paste things from articles or elsewhere (though, yes, when I remembered, I did make generous use of the "remove formatting" button).

Huh. I don't think I follow, exactly. Doesn't support what hotkeys? I use the usual MS formatting hotkeys all the time (CTRL+B for bold, etc) and they work just fine. Are you writing your posts in some HTML source view that I don't have or something?

Either way, again, nobody would force you to use a button if you don't want to. We've already got a button to include quote tags, I'm not seeing a compelling reason why a button to add spoiler tags is different in any significant way. If you aren't interested in using a spoiler-tag button, that's cool, but I don't think that's a reason why we shouldn't have one available.

That said, if Lum's answer is "no, not worth it," that's all good. It's a suggestion for a minor feature addition, which is what this thread is for, IIRC.

They never worked for me when I used RTE.

Just roll your own with Autohotkey or something. E.g.

Code (text):

1. ::splr::
2. Send {[}spoiler{]}{[}/spoiler{]}
3. return

Which would cause the spoiler tags to pop in whenever you type splr. Or whatever else you wanted to make it. It might not need the braces around the brackets but I can't remember if you need to escape brackets.