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In addition to those issues, if I want to quote portions of someone else's post, there's no way to tell the forum/system where the quote ends. I have to start writing a reply first, and THEN go and copy and paste what I want to quote. Otherwise, if I do that first, my reply cannot escape being included in the quote.
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And what happens if I click "check This solved my question"?
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Should we just remove this functionality?Also the above text is attached as a comment/description on an attached image (just copied and pasted in the editor, here. It needs some display modification to make it more clear it's attached to the image while editing.
I'm gonna hit "Unsubscribe" and then "Subscribe" again.
That should have solved the problem. Right now the rule is that a mere post in a thread does not subscribe you. The button does not reflect that and should. The default should also be a setting in the User profile/settings section. We're working on that. Also, there is a rule that all 'mods' (you are all mods) recieve an email about new threads. That may also be need to be made adjustable.
Need the page navigation at the top of the page too.
I agree, that's a good idea.
Clicking on the thread takes me to the bottom of the first page, not the last.
Working on it.
And yes, I'm gonna bust your balls while you're trying to re-inventing this wheel!! LOL We need emojis so I can show y'all I'm not angry.
There are some icons here already, it's just prohibitively difficult to use them. And they aren't strictly emoji. Actually utf-8 fonts all have working emoji:
. This needs to be easier to use. Working on it. Also, please bust all the balls, I really enjoy solving programming problems. I think Josh does, too, haha.In addition to those issues, if I want to quote portions of someone else's post, there's no way to tell the forum/system where the quote ends.
'enter' 'enter' exits a quote. I have been doing an extra space above each quote as well because it displays better. Josh we may need to change the formatting a little bit so it has some padding at the top to avoid this.
Also, when I visit the forum and click on a thread(this one specifically), I get thrown to the bottom of the first page of posts, not the most recent page of posts.
And after posting and clicking the "Comment" button on the third page, I'm thrown back to the first page.
On it.
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I was looking at some of these problems but I'll just let you work on the repo today Cody (so we don't get any wires crossed and blow something up). You can hit WINDOWS + PERIOD to bring up emoji
No need to bother with coding those.Should we just remove this functionality?
NO! Just replace "this solved my issue" with "pin this post" and remove the word "Solved" Actually, that link marks the whole thread as 'Solved' and puts the thread into the 'Finished' category for all users but doesn't close the thread. Hmmm.
if I want to quote portions of someone else's post, there's no way to tell the forum/system where the quote ends. I have to start writing a reply first, and THEN go and copy and paste what I want to quote. Otherwise, if I do that first, my reply cannot escape being included in the quote.
I already addressed this issue. "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."
I wish I could just link to that post but...wait does this work? No it doesn't. But it should.
I have been doing an extra space above each quote as well because it displays better. Josh we may need to change the formatting a little bit so it has some padding at the top to avoid this.
Yeah, I added a margin to the blockquote class. Maybe it's because I didn't make it !important to override the trix default style. I'll do that tomorrow.
I really enjoy solving programming problems. I think Josh does, too
Most definitely!
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Ideally, quotes should display the author. - Fidel
This is an excellent idea! I have some other ideas about a multi-functional but very intuitive quote button that would go right next to the edit button on all posts and I do think each quote should link back to its original post (and ideally be immutable).
can we create usernames to be displayed instead of displaying email addresses?
That's definitely Cody's department at this point. I do think the bold text next to profile pics should be the username but I also think the email address should always be visible. Internet accountability is something I want to discuss in depth at some point. I don't think simply displaying an email address will solve the problem but, what will? That's what I'd like to discuss. Until then, I don't intend to take part in any public threads (should we ever open any).
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Originally Posted by Josh >
...but I also think the email address should always be visible. Internet accountability is something I want to discuss in depth at some point.Are you opening our Flying Dutchman Forum to the public??? In any case, I have two opinions...
1. Especially if it's public, showing email addresses is ripe for spiders to harvest for spam. Private messages within the forum suffice for direct, private exchanges.
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Well, it looks like Cody's been busy. Things are looking real nice around here. Category names are looking good. Edit thread = like. A few things (you may or may not be aware of).
- The top navigation shows up
...until you use it. Then it disappears. - Pin this post is awesome! However, part of the original functionality still puts the thread in the 'Finished' category when you click that.
- You appear to be working on the profile pic issue. I thought I might update mine but the Profile menu item is broken.
Are you opening our Flying Dutchman Forum to the public?
If it is ever opened to the public, I don't think there should ever be any public threads.
showing email addresses is ripe for spiders to harvest for spam
You're right. Visible email addresses is no solution. Until we come up with one, I say private threads and invisible emails.
FYI, you can use CTRL + B for bold and CTRL + I for italics here. Nice!
- The top navigation shows up
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Josh, I think I fixed those issues. The top navigation should be working now. The profile page setting should work. You should be able to set a username and an avatar--just make sure you confirm your current password before hitting update or else it won't save the changes. The avatar works best with a square, because for the time being it squashes it to a square to make load times quick. I was thinking the same thing about the 'pin' functionality, I'll work on that next.
Besides the 'pin' thing, what are the other priorities?
As for public, I don't think we should make it public for now. I think we should just keep it us for the time being. One of the next things I'll do it add 'confirmable' to make it so people can sign up, but we have to allow them to be full users before they post. People can sign up, but they can't see anything (or only what we make public for non-confirmed people) unless we confirm them.
I was also thinking that it may be nice to detach the compose text-box (even in mobile), make it something that can scroll with the page on the right hand side. Then, add a quote link context menu pop-up when text is selected that creates a reference in the edit window. That would be a bigger project because it would involve some JS and I'm not that great at it, I'm super hacky. But it would be really cool, and I don't think I've seen a forum quite like that anywhere. What do you guys think?
Also, speaking of editing. Do we want to add some kind of time lock so that posts can't be edited after, like 24 hours?
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Yep, topnav works great now. Profile page, not so much.
Here's what I get when running the server on my machine.Started GET "/users/edit" for 127.0.0.1 at 2021-11-03 21:54:52 +0900
Processing by Devise::RegistrationsController#edit as HTML
User Load (4.0ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = $1 ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT $2 [["id", 1], ["LIMIT", 1]]
Rendering layout layouts/application.html.erb
Rendering devise/registrations/edit.html.erb within layouts/application
Rendered devise/shared/_error_messages.html.erb (Duration: 5.3ms | Allocations: 221)
ActiveStorage::Attachment Load (4.8ms) SELECT "active_storage_attachments".* FROM "active_storage_attachments" WHERE "active_storage_attachments"."record_id" = $1 AND "active_storage_attachments"."record_type" = $2 AND "active_storage_attachments"."name" = $3 LIMIT $4 [["record_id", 1], ["record_type", "User"], ["name", "avatar"], ["LIMIT", 1]]
↳ app/views/devise/registrations/edit.html.erb:17
Rendered devise/registrations/edit.html.erb within layouts/application (Duration: 143.7ms | Allocations: 22228)
Rendered layout layouts/application.html.erb (Duration: 145.5ms | Allocations: 22398)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 190ms (ActiveRecord: 8.8ms | Allocations: 26228)ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `inline_svg_tag' for #ActionView::Base:0x00000000006cc0
17: <% if resource.avatar.attached? %>
18: <%= image_tag resource.avatar.variant(resize: "100x100!"), class: "rounded" %>
19: <% else %>
20: <%= inline_svg_tag('images/flying_dutchmen.svg', class: "rounded") %>
21: <% end %>
22: <%= f.file_field :avatar %>
23: </div>app/views/devise/registrations/edit.html.erb:20
app/views/devise/registrations/edit.html.erb:3Also, I think that the 'Reply' link in emails is broken on paginated threads. I think it needs
?page=
followed by the actual page number in the query string before the post's anchor tag.
That would be a bigger project because it would involve some JS
Well, that's my department. I just need to know what points where. It looks like you've done some rearranging. I'll follow the breadcrumbs to the webpacker folder...
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