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Posts should move downward chronologically but the page does need to auto-scroll to the most recent post. Don't know about pagination, responding with quotes or tagging users yet. The subscribe button is at the bottom of the side bar on the left but there should be is another at the bottom of the page IMHO.
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Should be working now.
The emails, I was aware of (original issue here), tried to make a quick hack last night, didn't have time to actual test how it worked. I found a better solution.For now I'm using something called Mailgun to send mails, you've got to manually confirm participation on those e-mails. I sent that confirmation email a few minutes.
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Above you can see me testing to make sure the subscription button functionality works with my own account on this thread. It looks like there is some trigger that's not happening for:
if you contribute to the thread
a subscription is created for you automatically
endRegardless, the button says "unsubscribe" on the thread now, for me, because I created it--and in this situation no subscription record in the db is necessary because the thread already belongs to me. However, should we add this above functionality--posting means a subscription?
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Quotes is a big deal for me. Without that, there goes how I organize how and what I reply to.
Actually, quotes were showing up after clicking the submit button. I just added a style to the .css so you can preview them too. That still needs to be tweaked. It does weird stuff on mobile and needs a newline so you can reply easily.
There's a second 'Subscribe/Unsubscribe' button at the bottom now. That will show alongside pagination when we get that working. The page also auto-scrolls on PC now but it would be better to auto-scroll to the anchor tag of the most recent post.
didn't have time to actual test how it worked. I found a better solution.
It's working now. I'm getting emails. Might be a good one to submit a PR for.
should we add this above functionality--posting means a subscription?
I would put that as a check box under user settings (default = checked)
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needs a newline so you can reply easily
Actually, if you hit enter once, it goes to a new line in the quote but, if you hit enter a second time, it jumps down to the next line outside the quote. However, if you hold SHIFT + ENTER, it will continue to add new lines within the quote.
testing code here
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The first time clicking on the topic, the thread shows the oldest post at the top and does not take you to the bottom. If, however, you hit the back button and then try again, it takes you to the bottom and most recent post.
I bring up email first because when you get an e-mail it comes with a "reply" link that links you directly to the last post in the thread right above the composition box. Additionally, maybe we could just add a 'skip to the top' button at the bottom and a 'skip to the bottom' button at the top? Where the buttons go at the bottom there it may also be nice to have some other tools later, like moderation, voting, and thread related modal pop-ups with settings.
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The first time clicking on the topic, the thread shows the oldest post at the top and does not take you to the bottom. If, however, you hit the back button and then try again, it takes you to the bottom and most recent post.
Yeah, sometimes it takes you to the middle of the page too. It's probably an async thing (scroll starts before all posts are loaded) and probably fixed now. But, yeah it would definitely be better to scroll to the top of the most recent post. I'll try to add anchor tags with post IDs or something.
Where the buttons go at the bottom there it may also be nice to have some other tools later, like moderation, voting, and thread related modal pop-ups with settings.
and pagination. I saw something about it in the code but not a variable that says how many posts will trigger it. Maybe it's like 50 or 100. We can do it!
There's your 'top' button. I made the subscribe button green. The unsubscribe button should be red outline...later.
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Noice. Yeah, agree on the unsubscribe button, that's much more clear UI wise. Can you group the buttons at the bottom together?
Pagination is easy, can be set up pretty quickly, I just haven't had time yet. Sorry busy working on work stuff. I'll get there, heh.
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Fora is now inside of the-flying-dutchmen repo. This will make everything A LOT easier.
I see you added the buttons there on the bottom, looks great. Tonight, if I can find time, I want to move to sendgrid so none of this email verification stuff is required.
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Seems to be working and I'm sure this will allow me to get more done if I can wrap my head around the hierarchy - like what's pointing to what? /app/views/layouts has 4 files that I know are being used (that's what I've been editing). But now there's fora/app/views/fora that has all the forum and post views and fora.html.erb is duped (presumably unused) in fora/app/views/layouts. Can we consolidate all the views and assets?
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