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

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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 #26 from Sins Forums Top

I've used it twice. I see it works on my end. Plus I use FireFox.

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

Great work, Bara!!! Killer update, great features. :)

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah!   About time those features were added!      Now I can call people n00bs without most people realizing!

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

Interesting.  The first time I look at a page with the spoiler tag, it shows everything as part of regular text.  After looking at other posts and coming back, (reloading the data I assume) the text is now blocked out as it should be with the spoiler tag...

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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

Vimeo.

It would be nice that when you do a selective quote (like above), it would still show who you're quoting and from which post.

 

Hmm....just posted this and it took me back to the first post instead of to the one I just posted.

 

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Happens to me too. Every time I submit a response it goes back to page one.

Reply #32 from Sins 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 GunslingerBara, reply 19

[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 #33 from Sins Forums Top

Spoiler Blocker doesnt block smileys :P

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Why a spoiler though? You're hiding text but not hiding text.

Confusing.

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I love these new features.

Hell Yeah, the YouTube feature works great....

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Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

These new features are a gas. I'm gonna have so much fun. And they shouldn't block smileys. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Reply #38 from Elemental Forums Top

It would be nice that when you do a selective quote (like above), it would still show who you're quoting and from which post.

 

Damn straight! :grin:

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Campaigner, reply 38

It would be nice that when you do a selective quote (like above), it would still show who you're quoting and from which post.


 

Damn straight!

Yes,it would...;)

Reply #40 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.

This has been fixed.

Quoting Stant123, reply 22
The spoiler text feature isn't working in the Sins forums.  (Using Firefox if you need to know.)

It was a caching issue. I've forced it to clear the CSS cache, so you should see them now.

Quoting Ryat, reply 33
Spoiler Blocker doesnt block smileys

I'm not too worried about smilies. I think it's fine as it is.

EDIT: Hmm... looks like the spoiler tag doesn't work in quotes. I'll see about fixing that.

Quoting Bebi, reply 30
Vimeo.

I'll look at adding Vimeo support in the near future.

Quoting Bebi, reply 30
It would be nice that when you do a selective quote (like above), it would still show who you're quoting and from which post.

Quoting Campaigner, reply 38
Damn straight!

Quoting Jafo, reply 39
Yes,it would...

Selective quoting now adds post/user information.

Bara

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Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

:thumbsup:  Excellent! 

Reply #42 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 37
These new features are a gas. I'm gonna have so much fun. And they shouldn't block smileys.

Does quoting a spoiler reveal the spoil?

- Edit - apparently so.

Reply #43 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 10

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

YouPorn

PornTube

Megashare

Novamov

MovShare

:P .... LoL J/K on those.

Seriously though, maybe Hulu and Fancast and GameSpot could be useful as they legally show TV shows we often talk about, movie trailers, and of course game-play from video games.

Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 40
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.

This has been fixed.

Even after the above fix, clicking on the 'Go to last read reply' link in the article list isn't working; takes you to the top of page 1 of the article.

EDIT: Clicking the Submit button for this reply (and edits) still took me to the top of the current page (not page 1), so maybe it's not quite fixed after all.

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just clicked "Quote" with Opera 11.01 and it crashed twice. This is most likely a browser issue...but I hadn't seen it before now.

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Lets see if it works. Yup. Workin'

Reply #47 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting ZombiesRus5, reply 42

Quoting Uvah, reply 37These new features are a gas. I'm gonna have so much fun. And they shouldn't block smileys.

Does quoting a spoiler reveal the spoil?

- Edit - apparently so.

Working on it :p

Quoting RavenX, reply 43
Seriously though, maybe Hulu and Fancast and GameSpot could be useful as they legally show TV shows we often talk about, movie trailers, and of course game-play from video games.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll add them to my list of potentially supported video services.

Quoting Daiwa, reply 44

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 40Quoting 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.

This has been fixed.

Even after the above fix, clicking on the 'Go to last read reply' link in the article list isn't working; takes you to the top of page 1 of the article.

EDIT: Clicking the Submit button for this reply (and edits) still took me to the top of the current page (not page 1), so maybe it's not quite fixed after all.

Hmm... when this happens again, can you send me the URL that it takes you to?

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 45
Just clicked "Quote" with Opera 11.01 and it crashed twice. This is most likely a browser issue...but I hadn't seen it before now.

I'll look into it.

Bara

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Here's the URL returned when clicking the 'Go to last read reply' button for this thread (goes to top of current/last page, not page 1 after all):

https://forums.wincustomize.com/406748/page/2/#2910746

EDIT: Here's the URL returned when I first clicked the Submit button for this reply:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/406748/page/2/#2910759

2nd EDIT:  Here's the (same) URL returned after clicking the Save Changes button for the first edit:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/406748/page/2/#2910759

Reply #49 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 37
These new features are a gas. I'm gonna have so much fun. And they shouldn't block smileys.

Quoting spoilers should work now. You may need to do a hard refresh for it to start working, however. 

Quoting Daiwa, reply 48
Here's the URL returned when clicking the 'Go to last read reply' button for this thread (goes to top of current/last page, not page 1 after all):

https://forums.wincustomize.com/406748/page/2/#2910746

EDIT: Here's the URL returned when I first clicked the Submit button for this reply:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/406748/page/2/#2910759

2nd EDIT:  Here's the (same) URL returned after clicking the Save Changes button for the first edit:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/406748/page/2/#2910759

Hmm... which browser are you using? Because I am unable to reproduce the issue... 

Bara

Reply #50 from JoeUser Forums Top

Go to last read reply just worked (coming here).

I'm using IE8 at the moment.