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Post icon  Posted 13 December 2006 - 02:05 AM

If you haven't noticed yet, with the new forum version we got a few extra things to play with.

What's the meaning of life?
Spoiler


For the next trick, hover your mouse over this sentence.

You can look at how to do these by replying to this post, or choosing "add reply" below (as opposed to "fast reply") and looking at the left sidebar.
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 02:17 AM

Spoiler 


what does this do?



oh i get it
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 02:33 AM

What's the 'code' bit do?
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 08:48 AM

View PostCrazyChick, on Dec 13 2006, 08:33 AM, said:

What's the 'code' bit do?


It doesn't do anything special, it's just another way to display a text, mainly used for codes and things which were printed out of programmes.


(Btw: This isn't new. :P )
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 03:01 PM

hmmm
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Posted 13 December 2006 - 04:26 PM

Hey, you can adjust the size of the post text window thingy in Fast Reply now! (big big small big small small big big big small...)

And there are options in Fast Reply as well.

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Posted 13 December 2006 - 09:05 PM

Yep, you can put smilies in with fast reply without having to guess what they mean! :P There's some new ones too!
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 02:30 AM

whoa, safari bug thingy... you can do the acronym but it wont show up with safari, just a heads up. :P

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Posted 14 December 2006 - 03:04 AM

View PostDark Jet, on Dec 14 2006, 08:30 PM, said:

whoa, safari bug thingy... you can do the acronym but it wont show up with safari, just a heads up. :P

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Really? Works for me - what OS version are you using?
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 08:55 AM

View PostCrazyChick, on Dec 14 2006, 03:05 AM, said:

Yep, you can put smilies in with fast reply without having to guess what they mean! :P There's some new ones too!


That one isn't new either. ;) But some got updated, the wub one you used a bit and the ; ) one.
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 12:27 PM

Works fine for me. But then again, I don't use Safari. Firefox ftw!
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 05:20 PM

I noticed the changes over my time away from the boards and was thus unable to really experiment with them until today; is it me or did they get rid of the ability to tell on which board the majority of a member's posts have been?
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 07:48 PM

View PostDark Jet, on Dec 14 2006, 12:30 AM, said:

whoa, safari bug thingy... you can do the acronym but it wont show up with safari, just a heads up. :P

Both this topic and the preceding ATT testing post were done on Safari.

View PostSelax, on Dec 14 2006, 03:20 PM, said:

I noticed the changes over my time away from the boards and was thus unable to really experiment with them until today; is it me or did they get rid of the ability to tell on which board the majority of a member's posts have been?

Looks like they did, I can't find it anywhere.
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 07:55 PM

View PostMoonshadow, on Dec 15 2006, 06:27 AM, said:

Works fine for me. But then again, I don't use Safari. Firefox ftw!

Yeah, but Firefox only gives you one line, and cuts off the text part way.
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 07:58 PM

I guess this means we all need to write a minimum of five lines when using that feature.
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Posted 14 December 2006 - 10:34 PM

View PostSelax, on Dec 15 2006, 11:20 AM, said:

I noticed the changes over my time away from the boards and was thus unable to really experiment with them until today; is it me or did they get rid of the ability to tell on which board the majority of a member's posts have been?


It's just you, unless it's just me. You go to a person's profile, and on the left hand side there's this little box saying something like: Total Posts: XXXX Top Place of Posting: (Topic Name) XXXX (percentage of total posts). At least, when I last looked, that happened.
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Posted 15 December 2006 - 04:28 PM

View PostCrazyChick, on Dec 14 2006, 09:34 PM, said:

It's just you, unless it's just me. You go to a person's profile, and on the left hand side there's this little box saying something like: Total Posts: XXXX Top Place of Posting: (Topic Name) XXXX (percentage of total posts). At least, when I last looked, that happened.


I still can't find it, which brings to mind another question. Does anyone else get the "search flood control" error on their first search when they try looking up other member's posts or topics?
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Posted 15 December 2006 - 04:43 PM

You are dead right about the first, but I haven't had the second and I just tried.
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Posted 22 December 2006 - 11:12 PM

View PostAvatara, on Dec 14 2006, 06:58 PM, said:

I guess this means we all need to write a minimum of five lines when using that feature.
I move that we ban this feature. One can loose a lot of time waiting for some message to pop-up when there is no message there... :P

View PostSelax, on Dec 15 2006, 03:28 PM, said:

Does anyone else get the "search flood control" error on their first search when they try looking up other member's posts or topics?
Nope. I rarely have trouble with the flood control.
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Posted 23 December 2006 - 11:08 AM

Testing testing
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Posted 23 December 2006 - 04:19 PM

They no longer have the text saying what % of posts this person has in this board, as in the board one has posted the most in.
Also the content thing is interesting, it appears to have loaded posts by default because i haven't modified that yet and it has some posts up there already.

Kinda interesting...

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This post has been edited by Dark Jet: 23 December 2006 - 04:19 PM

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Posted 23 December 2006 - 08:58 PM

In the Tavern, we should change the OoC posts to spoiler blanking. Then you don't have to read them. There might be a flaw in my plan though.... If you spot it, do tell me!
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Posted 23 December 2006 - 11:26 PM

Hmm, how would you know which OoC posts were directed at you?
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Posted 24 December 2006 - 12:57 AM

Wouldn't that make them stand out even more? I mean, skimming posts and suddenly you see a big blob of black lines. I was going to suggest using acronyms where you hide your message in the popup over a word like "OoC" or something, but they might not be big enough and its not that intuitive.

I think the current method of having people edit them out when the story/tavern is over is fine.
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Posted 24 December 2006 - 06:40 PM

View PostSelax, on Dec 24 2006, 05:26 PM, said:

Hmm, how would you know which OoC posts were directed at you?


You could put OoC* To Selax:
Spoiler
*BiC

And, Avatara, the only reason why the OoC posts bug me is because I can read them and I sort of 'fall out' of the story, especially with long OoC posts that I have to read to know when they finish. Putting them in black would make the demarcation line more obvious.
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