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Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 16, 2018 at 7:35 pm
It takes five~ minutes to knock a post together and ten minutes to render the thing readable.
Gone are the days when you could just hit the post reply button and wot you sed will appear as is. No dear readers you must use the preview function in order to reveal all the hidden line breaks and other shit formatting errors that don't show up on the main page.
Or is it just me?
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 16, 2018 at 9:08 pm
(March 16, 2018 at 7:35 pm)Succubus Wrote: It takes five~ minutes to knock a post together and ten minutes to render the thing readable.
Gone are the days when you could just hit the post reply button and wot you sed will appear as is. No dear readers you must use the preview function in order to reveal all the hidden line breaks and other shit formatting errors that don't show up on the main page.
Or is it just me?
wut ?
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 16, 2018 at 9:09 pm
(March 16, 2018 at 7:35 pm)Succubus Wrote: It takes five~ minutes to knock a post together and ten minutes to render the thing readable.
Gone are the days when you could just hit the post reply button and wot you sed will appear as is. No dear readers you must use the preview function in order to reveal all the hidden line breaks and other shit formatting errors that don't show up on the main page.
Or is it just me?
I have a hard time too, Succ. I just assumed it’s because I’m a flake, and I don’t know how to use computers. 
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 17, 2018 at 8:01 pm
Bah... Go into your UCP ( https://atheistforums.org/usercp.php?action=options) and activate the source mode for your replies. You'll see all the non existing formatting (if any) and when you paste some text into there, it will be plain text.
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 17, 2018 at 10:35 pm
(March 17, 2018 at 8:01 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Bah... Go into your UCP (https://atheistforums.org/usercp.php?action=options) and activate the source mode for your replies. You'll see all the non existing formatting (if any) and when you paste some text into there, it will be plain text.
Well yyyes but that's akin to using an atom bombs to kill flies, but anyway I'll persivere persavere persziveer
I'll stick with it.
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 17, 2018 at 10:41 pm
(March 17, 2018 at 10:35 pm)Succubus Wrote: (March 17, 2018 at 8:01 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Bah... Go into your UCP (https://atheistforums.org/usercp.php?action=options) and activate the source mode for your replies. You'll see all the non existing formatting (if any) and when you paste some text into there, it will be plain text.
Well yyyes but that's akin to using an atom bombs to kill flies, but anyway I'll persivere persavere persziveer
I'll stick with it.
I always use source mode... you never know what you're gonna get if you use the other... as you've found out 
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 17, 2018 at 10:45 pm
(March 17, 2018 at 10:35 pm)Succubus Wrote: (March 17, 2018 at 8:01 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Bah... Go into your UCP (https://atheistforums.org/usercp.php?action=options) and activate the source mode for your replies. You'll see all the non existing formatting (if any) and when you paste some text into there, it will be plain text.
Well yyyes but that's akin to using an atom bombs to kill flies, but anyway I'll persivere persavere persziveer
I'll stick with it.
Perhaps a button that would insert the following code would help.
This way they could break up a quote where there cursor is at. And as an option, take any highlighted text, and place it between the above. This would let someone who is not comfortable with the source mode, they could either create the space to type, or type and take the text out of the original quote. I don't know how much control you have over buttons and functions of the board.
One other thing that I've noticed is that for me, if I'm not in source mode, and insert a link, that it tends to want to continue the link after for whatever I type. I normally have to go into source mode, and type a little something after the url to get out of it.
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 17, 2018 at 11:04 pm
(March 17, 2018 at 10:41 pm)emjay Wrote: (March 17, 2018 at 10:35 pm)Succubus Wrote: Well yyyes but that's akin to using an atom bombs to kill flies, but anyway I'll persivere persavere persziveer
I'll stick with it.
I always use source mode... you never know what you're gonna get if you use the other... as you've found out
I use ctrl+shift+s to switch between the two so I can edit and get an approximate preview.
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 17, 2018 at 11:13 pm
(March 17, 2018 at 11:04 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: (March 17, 2018 at 10:41 pm)emjay Wrote: I always use source mode... you never know what you're gonna get if you use the other... as you've found out
I use ctrl+shift+s to switch between the two so I can edit and get an approximate preview.
Right... thanks for that... I just tried that out, and apart from it opening the Developer Tools in Firefox when the reply box doesn't have focus, it looks like a cool and quick way of doing it.
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RE: Is the fucking forum quote function in need of some subtle fucking tweekage?
March 17, 2018 at 11:26 pm
(March 17, 2018 at 11:13 pm)emjay Wrote: (March 17, 2018 at 11:04 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: I use ctrl+shift+s to switch between the two so I can edit and get an approximate preview.
Right... thanks for that... I just tried that out, and apart from it opening the Developer Tools in Firefox when the reply box doesn't have focus, it looks like a cool and quick way of doing it.
Yeah, the developer toolbox is a bit of an irritation.
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