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I've spent the evening improving the 'Flag' feature so that @Jason and @Federica can once again see & discuss them (it was just me there for a while, and I'm sometimes forgetful) so expect better response and coordination when dealing with flagged posts.
FYI: We still don't have easy bold/italics/link formatting because of some bugs in that plugin. It causes some weird interactions, especially with the emoticons. Still working on it.
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
It's a minor gripe but the emoticon select icon overlaps the text. If you need to do anything there, like add punctuation, you can't because the emoticon button is in the way... For some reason, I usually manage to finish a sentence right....*there*...but I don't suppose it bothers anyone else....
I noticed that in the mobile version of the site's discussion list, the individual who started each thread is specified. It would be useful if the primary version of the list also gave this information.
Has anyone had trouble using the "search" function to look up old threads? I haven't been able to access threads beyond the last month or two, if that.
The search function on sites like this usually sucks compared to a dedicated search engine, anyway. Try searching on google with "site:newbuddhist.com"
Lincoln, I haven't been able to edit my posts lately, in spite of there being plenty of time left (the ticker is still ticking). Do you have a clue? Might it be because sometimes my "Who's on line" setting is set at "invisible"?
Actually it was retracted down to 5 minutes to fix the issue of people editing their posts so much that many of the replies didn't make sense. The only other option really would be disabling edit for a post as soon as any replies were made (and replies come quick sometimes), if Lincoln chose to do that.
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
It's not going to rise above five minutes for the reasons Cloud gave. But maybe the Vanilla "egg-timer" doesn't 'compute >5minutes.... that is to say, Lincoln has denoted 5 minutes, but the system isn't formatted to give that time.... and picks a figure "out of the air" as a default....
I've gotta say that overall I haven't dug the new board that much, but I'm browsing this board on my PS3 for the first time (since my laptop is kaput and the wife has the desktop tied up right now). It looks and runs pretty good here. I'm pleasantly surprised (especially considering that the PS3's browser typically sucks).
I hope that your plate is less crowded. Are we any closer to editing buttons and could we have the little yellow "unread" thingy within our "Commented" page?
Are you thinking of expanding the information that can be given in our profiles? We've had a discussion (incoclusive as ever) about knowing ages but there used to be more available. I am particularly thinking of personal links (blog, Facebook, Twitter, website, etc.). I know, and follow, Jason's excellent Buddhist blog and it would be good to find others have the same sort of thing, as do I.
A personal statement can also be illuminating. Even if we do not have self, I am still interested in the minutiae of arisings.
This may be an embarrassingly basic question, but I noticed when we switched to the new format, that a number of threads were listed as "bookmarked", even though I'd never bookmarked anything. (I don't know how to bookmark.) How can I "unbookmark" threads, and bookmark new ones?
@compassionate_warrior The lotus flower is the bookmark button. When we moved, it turned every 'subscribed' thread you had into a bookmark. vBulletin may have been set to auto-subscribe you to threads you posted in.
The front page used to show the number of new comments in the most recently commented threads. This is no longer the case. Would it be easy to restore that functionality? It was super useful.
Categories have evolved quite a bit in the last few months. If you strongly prefer the old-school category view, try bookmarking this page instead: http://newbuddhist.com/categories/all
(It isn't as well styled as I'd like because that page is relatively new so my theme for NewBuddhist didn't plan for it)
Thanks to @federica for showing us how; I wasn't even sure myself. I found out that we can use escape codes to show the actual source, so here's another example:
Please visit <a href="http://www.BuddhaNet.net">BuddhaNet</a> for more information on the various Buddhist traditions!
Which is the same as HTML you'd put in a webpage, luckily enough. In the above example the only thing that shows up to the user is the text in the middle (in this case "BuddhaNet"), which is clickable and leads to the address after the "href", surrounded by whatever other text before and after it.
Could we have a permanent thread, like the B-day and Introduction threads, that provides guidelines re: how to choose a category for one's thread topic? There have been some placements lately that don't make sense to me, including some moved threads that don't seem to fit in with their new location. We might be able to save the mods some work if there were guidelines we could look up.
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*returns to hibernation*
or PM him.
Abu
For example.
(I'm making sense to me.... :crazy: )
I hope that your plate is less crowded. Are we any closer to editing buttons and could we have the little yellow "unread" thingy within our "Commented" page?
Are you thinking of expanding the information that can be given in our profiles? We've had a discussion (incoclusive as ever) about knowing ages but there used to be more available. I am particularly thinking of personal links (blog, Facebook, Twitter, website, etc.). I know, and follow, Jason's excellent Buddhist blog and it would be good to find others have the same sort of thing, as do I.
A personal statement can also be illuminating. Even if we do not have self, I am still interested in the minutiae of arisings.
Do take care of yourself. You are precious and deserve your rest.
Would it be possible to have the "New" thingy on the "Commented" page? It would really help not having to trawl through posts already read. Thank you.
(It isn't as well styled as I'd like because that page is relatively new so my theme for NewBuddhist didn't plan for it)
type
a left-pointing < chevron
followed immediately by the letter
a
then insert a space
and then follow with
href="
then paste your link.
Next, close the link with
"
followed immediately by
>
Then, add whatever text you wish to put and close with
a left-pointing < chevron
a
>
Type what you want to type here.:crazy:
Edit:
Oh, I see what you did there, with the <'codes'> thingy.
Thanks!!
Tah-daaaah!!
Copy and paste it onto a desktop document.
That's what I did.
Are we able to bold or italicise
Are we able to post images
Thanks!
This is boldThis is italic
Click 'Attach a file' to post an image.
Well wishes,
Abu