The new looks?

A Former User

Yes, we keep the original post on each page to remind people what the thread is about. We're hoping this can keep topics on-topic
Looks o'k - being visibly separated.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

My Opera was like that as well, for the same reason. As long as it's not some "catch all" thread, it does help. Oh, and my reply in this thread actually showed in the right place.

A Former User

My Opera was like that as well...

Was it?
At least there were settings, weren't they?

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Oh no. I think when it started it may have been different, but I might just be remembering the forums we had before My Opera. When it ended, and at least 5 years before that, My Opera showed the first post st the top of every page.

A Former User

Yes, we keep the original post on each page to remind people what the thread is about. We're hoping this can keep topics on-topic
Quite a few of the other forums I use also do this.
I think it's useful too, except where you get very long running huge threads where the original post can become somewhat irrelevant over time!

A Former User

@digmed Sink is not working, the discussions keep jumping up on new comments.

Wow, is there anything left?
I think we should start writing a list of what's working, it'll take less time, LOL.

ngamer01

ngamer01

Whenever I start to create a new post, as soon as I start typing directly into the text box, it collapses to a single-line of text view-box, but with the lower 50-60% of the text characters missing behind a white inner border immediately above the lower gray box border. Once I've typed more than one line of text, it scrolls upward as it should and the box expands, but as a long text builds and continues scrolling upward, it finally bumps against the upper text box border where the upper 50-60% of the top-most text characters disappear behind a white inner border immediately below the upper gray box border (sort of a mirror-image of what happens to the bottom of the single-line text). The single-line-text part of this is a real annoyance, since it prevents me from "proofing" what I'm typing until/unless I put in enough text to scroll the material upward.

I was about to report this problem, but I'm glad you already posted about this. This makes it really annoying to try posting/replying to threads. I don't know if the Opera forum staff can do anything, but if it's not a problem with the forum software, Opera or myself could look into filing a bug on Mozilla's Bugzilla about this.

A Former User

And don't forget the quote button doesn't work in Firefox (mine, at least). Hitting it scrolls me to the top instead (no text in the editing area).
At least it was so up to the last time I visited with my Firefox.

A Former User

And the "next to the OP" glitch is still here.
And the 'options' button seems still not working (no reload) at the fresh submit.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

I did mention the "next to OP" glitch about 5 posts ago. Did you select text before clicking quote? Obviously haven't tried it in FF, but it does work here.

A Former User

Select - no select -- the button apparently works as a "Go to top" button.

A Former User

We have a "Markdown" link beneath the... whatever.
Let me test some other way of emphasis by copypasting from there:
Some of these words are emphasized.
Some of these words are emphasized also.

Use two asterisks for strong emphasis.
Or, if you prefer, use two underscores instead.

or without ps --
Some of these words are emphasized.
Some of these words are emphasized also.

Use two asterisks for strong emphasis.
Or, if you prefer, use two underscores instead.

No italicising either...

Guys, did you know that there seemed to be an edit timer issue?
Now I'm editing for the second time: the first time I was shown "29 mins", but now it was "30" again. Huh?:rolleyes:
And the page (in Chrome) upon saving the edit jumps wherever it.. jumps. It was somewhere upwards last time...:left:
The second time after [re]loading it jumped to approximately the same place somewhere near the top again... Though the timer seemed right this third time (I saw that I couldn't show the lack of italicising showing the stuff as quotation).

A Former User

Upon the third editing I was shown an "error" pop-up, though the edit seemed saved.

After eliminating all the major bugs I think we should.. er.. think of introducing some new formatting - better text rendering, better quoting, such like. Or is it that that "Markdown" is maybe just sorta not "synchronised" with something in the forum engine???

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

The forum engine is Vanilla forums. In another version they use bbcode, like the old forums did. Not sure why Opera chose markdown - up to them. But it would be nice if they supported underlining and so on ...

A Former User

I came across another style called "Tile", or "Title", I forget.
At least that worked - unlike Mr Mark Down. Very easy to perform it was.

The question is - if we implement a new syntax, will the old posts be lost - they'll follow the tool and become a mess, right?

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

They must have converted the few MyOpera posts transferred to markdown - but they did have 3 days to do it.

A Former User

We're all gonna die...:dying:

blackbird71

blackbird71

And don't forget the quote button doesn't work in Firefox (mine, at least). Hitting it scrolls me to the top instead (no text in the editing area).
At least it was so up to the last time I visited with my Firefox.

@joshl, it may be your FF installation/version. The quote button works just fine here in FF29 (as it did also in 27 & 28) - I just used it for this posting via FF29.

A Former User

The "next to the OP" glitch is still glitching!
<edit> Not every time, though../edit>

A Former User

Again it's a board mess in this section.

What to do to get email notifications

Forum login not being saved

The latter being shown "as if the freshest" on the boards list.