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  • Shipmates used to be able to plug stuff in our sigs - now that sigs are no more, is there a way of plugging stuff, or is that too likely to pith people off?

    No-one?

    AG

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Sorry for the tardiness in replying, Sandemaniac - I've been a bit remiss in looking in the Styx lately.

    There is a thread in AS where you can post details of Events and festivals; it had slipped down to page 2, so you may not have noticed it.

    Hope this is the sort of thing you had in mind - if not, let us know and we'll have a rethink.

    Piglet, AS host
  • Thanks Piglet, much appreciated. I'll pop a notification in there when I get under way.

    AG
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    I wonder if it is possible you might consider an alteration (if possible) to the options available in the drop down menu when posting from an iPhone so that it could include the option to post a link.

    If one of the other options needs to be removed, I would take ‘Code’ out as ISTM to be infrequently used.

    At the moment it takes (on an iPhone) 24 key presses, plus whatever is needed for the displayed in order to post a link.

    Please can the PTB consider this. Thanks
  • GeorgeGeorge Shipmate
    Is there a way to mark all threads on all boards as ‘read’ at once?
  • You can click on the little cog at the side of each board when in Categories and mark that read (because I've done it by mistake on my phone).
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    edited June 2018
    I notice, however, that when you have done that it only removes the flags that show you how many posts are unread. If you then click on the thread, it still delivers you to the last post you have read (and not, as I had hoped, to the end of the thread).

    Also, when a new post is subsequently added to a thread, the unread posts flag which reappears shows the total number of unread posts, not just the number posted since the flag was cleared.
  • Is it just me, or has anyone else spotted a change in font/type face? It's not a problem - just a bit odd, perhaps.

    IJ
  • Yes, it's been noticed by others. It appears our tech wizard did something clever which doesn't work properly on all browsers. Hopefully it will be sorted soon.
  • HedgehogHedgehog Shipmate
    Yes, it's been noticed by others. It appears our tech wizard did something clever which doesn't work properly on all browsers. Hopefully it will be sorted soon.
    Ah! Not just me then. I have to say that, these days, that comes as something of a relief...
  • Indeed!

    Thanks, Alan - as I said, not a particularly Serious Issue, given the state of the world in general...

    IJ
  • Apologies. This was my fault (I'm the web developer for the Ship). I fixed one thing and broke another. But the fonts should be back now. If anyone can confirm this I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
  • Everything looks ok here.
  • Yes, all is well again!

    IJ
  • HarryCHHarryCH Shipmate
    In the old boards I sometimes saved a discussion as a text file, printable. Can I do this on the new board?
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    There isn't a specific function for that, but you should be able to copy and paste pages into text files.
  • Tried it just now. It's all but unreadable due to the formatting not transferring over. If, instead, you paste it into Word, you get a near photographic reproduction of the web page. So that works, although it lacks the very simple and compact format of the files produced by the old boards. Definitely in "workaround" territory, not "great results" territory.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    LOL, I just voted in a poll on the old Ship.
  • Just as a flag - the Hell thread that gives the guidance for posting in Hell isn't a sticky and has dropped onto page 2.
  • I have noticed that people have tagged others with an @ symbol, and when they do it to me, I get an email saying so-and-so tagged you in a post, with a link right to that point in the thread. It's cool. But is it possible to do it with a two-word name? Not to pick on LC, just the first one to come to mind, but take someone like Leorning Cniht. If I put an @ in front of the name, only the first word would be tagged. Would it still send the email (if LC has it set up to get emails)?
  • Two ways: start the tag with @ and as many letters as it needs, and wait for the pop up to come and then click on that - or type the two word names (or more) in inverted commas.

    I don't get emails because I've switched that off, but I do get notifications - the globe on the top right.
  • RooKRooK Admin Emeritus
    mousethief wrote: »
    I have noticed that people have tagged others with an @ symbol, and when they do it to me, I get an email saying so-and-so tagged you in a post, with a link right to that point in the thread. It's cool. But is it possible to do it with a two-word name? Not to pick on LC, just the first one to come to mind, but take someone like Leorning Cniht. If I put an @ in front of the name, only the first word would be tagged. Would it still send the email (if LC has it set up to get emails)?

    Put the name to be @-ed in quotes. Right, @Alan Cresswell?
  • Cool, thank you both!
  • I've been ignoring the globe on the top right. It now says 383. Can't imagine going through that many.
  • If you click on the globe it will bring up the list and remove the number. It doesn't require you to go through them all. I find it more helpful to right click and open in a different tab.
  • Just as a flag - the Hell thread that gives the guidance for posting in Hell isn't a sticky and has dropped onto page 2.

    Thanks, but the software also appears to have duplicated a sticky at the top of the board too, so we're good. (Everyone can see that, right?)
  • Yeah, sorry, I realised later - I was scrolling down to see if Russ already had a thread.
  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    I have a question. When I click on recent discussions, there is a cog I can click on for each, with an option to tag it. Does that mean anyone can add a public tag to anyone’s thread? Or is it private tagging, to sort the threads into one’s personal categories, which no one else can see?
  • Is there a way to move from typing an entry to posting the comment without using the mouse? On the old ship one could press TAB and select the "post" button, then press ENTER and post the comment, all without lifting one's hands off the keyboard. Is that possible here, and I'm just missing it? Is it possible to make it possible if it's not already?
  • Experimenting you can tab along

    BBCode -> Home -> The Styx -> Preview -> Edit -> Save Draft

    Then it skips Post Comment to New Discussion, so although I can use the return / enter key to save the draft and preview, it doesn't seem to let me Post Comment.

    It also won't let me Post Comment from Preview either.
  • Experimenting you can tab along

    BBCode -> Home -> The Styx -> Preview -> Edit -> Save Draft

    Then it skips Post Comment to New Discussion, so although I can use the return / enter key to save the draft and preview, it doesn't seem to let me Post Comment.

    It also won't let me Post Comment from Preview either.
    That's interesting - I use the tab key a lot and of course voice reads what it says.

  • Please remind me how to delete a draft. I know we've discussed it, but I can't find the answer.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    Go to My Drafts. You see all your drafts listed, with a tiny, light-grey x in the top-right corner, almost impossible to see. Click that.
  • Lily PadLily Pad Shipmate
    edited July 2018
    When you go to "My Drafts" and open the one you want to delete, there is a barely visible "x" in the far upper right hand corner. You can delete from there.
  • Thank you, LeRoc and Lily Pad! It's so small and light I never would have found it on my own.
  • MMMMMM Shipmate
    Where is My Drafts? I can't find it.

    Tks.

    MMM
  • You only have a My Drafts if you have any, if that makes sense. It's under the
    NEW DISCUSSION
    CATEGORIES
    RECENT DISCUSSIONS
    MY DISCUSSIONS - if you've started any threads

    list, with MY BOOKMARKS -if you have any of those.

    On a laptop they are top right, on a phone underneath everything.
  • MMMMMM Shipmate
    Ahhh! So it is. Thank you, CK. I frequently get a pop up saying Draft saved', apparently randomly, not when I've knowingly done anything. I must accidentally touch something.

    So I had quite a lot of drafts to delete!

    Many thanks.

    MMM
  • What I find frustrating is when it saves a draft of what I just posted, and the next time I go back to the page, the whole of my last post is in the edit box.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    That's what the "delete drafts" function is there to get rid of.
  • LeRocLeRoc Shipmate
    I do like the automatic draft saving function, it has obvious advantages. But for someone who's on a slow internet connection like me, it can take minutes to save it, and during that time I can't do anything else.
  • Eutychus wrote: »
    That's what the "delete drafts" function is there to get rid of.

    Great function, but I wish it were more obvious.
  • Eutychus wrote: »
    That's what the "delete drafts" function is there to get rid of.
    The "delete drafts" function is a pain in the ass to get to. Yes it's just a few clicks but why should I have to go to some buried page to overcome an error caused by the software? Making your users undo your fuckups is a sign of improperly designed or executed programming.
  • peasepease Tech Admin
    edited July 2018
    You can say that again.

    My impression is that the auto-save happens significantly more frequently when I'm typing. My guess is that it's on a timer and a word-count.

    Some configuration options would be distinctly helpful - being able to turn it off altogether for those users who hate it, and being able to disable the timer so that it doesn't go off when you're reading (if you happen to have some text left there from an abandoned draft).
  • ClimacusClimacus Shipmate
    It seems to work for Microsoft...

    I'm not sure if it has to do with reading this thread, but I just experienced what mousethief did: a posted post saved a draft. Never happened before. Perhaps it happens if it saves a draft just as you post, or I'm guessing it happens more frequently than that given mousethief's complaint.
  • It seems to save drafts of posts you're posting if you are quoting or editing. That's when I have had them.
  • peasepease Tech Admin
    LeRoc wrote: »
    I do like the automatic draft saving function, it has obvious advantages. But for someone who's on a slow internet connection like me, it can take minutes to save it, and during that time I can't do anything else.
    An even better reason for an option or two.

    I've started composing longer posts in a separate text editor. It's not auto-save that I want to avoid, but I find the not-quite auto-sizing of the edit window annoying, and it doesn't distinguish well the quoted and your own text in edit mode, so I find myself switching between preview and edit mode as I'm typing. At which point I realise it would be a lot less painful to scroll the thread to the bit I want to reply to, and prepare my reply in a separate window. At which point, if I'm breaking up the quote to reply to individual points and pasting my reply point by point, I realise that this is taking far longer than it should and that bad user interfaces are a pain.
  • EutychusEutychus Shipmate
    After a little experimentation, I think it's possible, rather than going through all the rigmarole of finding the tiny invisible x, to delete your draft by manually deleting the drafted text that re-emerges when you come to want to post again, and then clicking on "save draft" to save the empty box...
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    Eutychus wrote: »
    After a little experimentation, I think it's possible, rather than going through all the rigmarole of finding the tiny invisible x, to delete your draft by manually deleting the drafted text that re-emerges when you come to want to post again, and then clicking on "save draft" to save the empty box...

    You get rid of a draft by clicking on "save draft'. Who'd a thunk it?

  • That method didn't work for me when I tried it. But now that I know the "Secret of the Grey X" I'll be o.k.
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