Forum Update - March 22, 2011 - Spoiler tag, Youtube tag, and some fixes

from Stardock Forums

Hey everyone! I recently pushed an update to the forums to make some bug fixes, and figure I'd add a few new features along the way. Here's what changed:

1. You can now give karma to users even in locked posts.

2. For those of you that do not know, you can quote only specific parts of a user's text. It works like this:

A. Select the text you wish to quote, then hit the quote button:

B. The selected text will then show up in the reply box:

If you wish to quote the entire text, simply hit the Quote button without anything selected.

This feature previously did not work on Chrome or IE9. It does now, so enjoy!

3. A Spoiler tag has been added to the editor. It allows you to mark sections of your post/reply as a spoiler, which are then hidden. Here's how it works:

A. Select the text you wish to hide and hit the spoiler icon in the toolbar: 

B. You can also simply surround your text with the spoiler tag, like below:

C. The text will be shown in your post/reply as black text on a black background:

D. On websites that already have a dark background behind the post/reply, the text and text background will show up as white, as shown here on the Sins of a Solar Empire forums:

E. If a user mouses over the text or highlights it, it will appear:

This should hopefully help to prevent spoilers for not only Stardock game discussions, but any game discussions.

4. A Youtube/video tag has been added to the editor. It allows you to show a Youtube video inline. Here's how it works:

A. Click the Youtube icon in the editor's toolbar:

B. In the popup, paste the URL of the Youtube video you want to show:

C. You can also simply surround the Youtube video URL with the video tag, like so:

D. When you submit, the Youtube video will show up inline with the rest of your post/reply:

5. Some minor CSS/Color changes and bug fixes here and there.

I hope you guys enjoy these changes! Please let me know if you notice any problems with the above changes or anything in the forums. Feel free to create a new topic in the Forum Issues category if you encounter anything.

Bara

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for all you are doing to improve the sites.  

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Great stuff!  Some nice enhancements here.  Thank you!

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

GunslingerBara has been busy.  Thank you very much for the improvements.  :thumbsup:

 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Outstanding!

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Good job. :)

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Excellent, thank you.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Well that explains a lot. Oh and you can use the old embed code for YouTube in the same spot to get the same effect.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Oh and I noticed that on a multipage thread, when I post I have a tendency to revert back to the first page for some reason. The post goes through but then I am looking at the first page and not the page I posted up at.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

That's great news, Bara. Thanks so much!

How about non youtube videos?  Also, will the same changes exist for JoeUser, and will we be able to use them for posts using Live Writer or have to make those changes after posting?

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 8
Oh and I noticed that on a multipage thread, when I post I have a tendency to revert back to the first page for some reason. The post goes through but then I am looking at the first page and not the page I posted up at.

Oddly enough I've noticed the same problem. I'll take a look and see what the cause is.

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 9
That's great news, Bara. Thanks so much!

How about non youtube videos?  Also, will the same changes exist for JoeUser, and will we be able to use them for posts using Live Writer or have to make those changes after posting?

Youtube is the only supposed video for now, I'll see about adding more services later. Any suggestions?

The same changes exist for the JoeUser forums, but not the JoeUser blogs. I may update it in the near future to provide that. Live Writer should work fine with the changes, but again, only if you are posting to the forums.

Bara

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

Great job Gunslinger!  Tell Brad I said to give you a raise! ;)

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sweet!!!  Thanks Bara!

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Youtube is the only supposed video for now, I'll see about adding more services later. Any suggestions?

The same changes exist for the JoeUser forums, but not the JoeUser blogs. I may update it in the near future to provide that. Live Writer should work fine with the changes, but again, only if you are posting to the forums.

1. ff4 doesn't show vids posted in responses...

2. The code for the vid is:  <object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=760101050001&playerID=2227271001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAADqBmN8~,Yo4S_rZKGX0rYg6XsV7i3F9IB8jNBoiY&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=760101050001&playerID=2227271001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAADqBmN8~,Yo4S_rZKGX0rYg6XsV7i3F9IB8jNBoiY&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>

3. Unfortunately, WLW posts to my blog on JU... it would be tremendously helpful to be able to use these changes in JU blogs as well.

 

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 13

Youtube is the only supposed video for now, I'll see about adding more services later. Any suggestions?

The same changes exist for the JoeUser forums, but not the JoeUser blogs. I may update it in the near future to provide that. Live Writer should work fine with the changes, but again, only if you are posting to the forums.

1. ff4 doesn't show vids posted in responses...

2. The code for the vid is:  <object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=760101050001&playerID=2227271001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAADqBmN8~,Yo4S_rZKGX0rYg6XsV7i3F9IB8jNBoiY&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=760101050001&playerID=2227271001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAADqBmN8~,Yo4S_rZKGX0rYg6XsV7i3F9IB8jNBoiY&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>

3. Unfortunately, WLW posts to my blog on JU... it would be tremendously helpful to be able to use these changes in JU blogs as well.

 

FF4 shows the Youtube just fine:

I'll see about implementing these changes into JoeUser in the near future.

Bara

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks a lot Bara.... good to see the site progressing....   :)

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Bara, these updates are Fantastic. Thank-you

And your real handsome. :blush:

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

the site seems much less laggy too.  I'm using Chrome...

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Bara rocks!

Reply #19 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 8
Oh and I noticed that on a multipage thread, when I post I have a tendency to revert back to the first page for some reason. The post goes through but then I am looking at the first page and not the page I posted up at.

I've found the problem and will be pushing a fix tomorrow morning to resolve it.

Bara

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yay Bara!

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 19

Quoting Ryat, reply 8Oh and I noticed that on a multipage thread, when I post I have a tendency to revert back to the first page for some reason. The post goes through but then I am looking at the first page and not the page I posted up at.
I've found the problem and will be pushing a fix tomorrow morning to resolve it.

Bara

Cool, the ban game and last post game are getting annoying

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

The spoiler text feature isn't working in the Sins forums.  (Using Firefox if you need to know.)

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

Works for me! :D

Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

Haven't seen you use any and two of us so far are unable to get it to work.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Awesome. You Rock Dude!