Forum tips and tricks

[Mogri]

We're all new here. Share anything you've found that others might not know about.

[spoiler="FF7"]Aerith dies[/spoiler] renders this:

Spoiler: FF7

Aerith dies

You can do old inline spoilers with the [ispoiler] tag like this.

You can limit the size of embedded images with (for any valid width).

You can switch to night mode by clicking on the paintbrush icon on the bottom left corner of any page.

The [icode] tag is new, and it allows you to post inline code(snippets);

Finally, the [plain] tag lets you show other people BBCode tags in plain text.

 

[Kirin]

Were you attempting to show a code snippet for how to limit image size?

Oh hang on, after experimenting, I see: you can just insert the image first and then drag it to any size. Or click and set a size. And alt text! Nice.

 

[Mogri]

Were you attempting to show a code snippet for how to limit image size?

I was, yes. Let's try again:

[img width="123px"]

I didn't know about your method, though -- that's nice!

 

[aturtledoesbite]

There's also the [whiteout] tag, which hides your text by making it faded.

Though it's not very effective for people who use After Dark.

 

[Mogri]

There's also the [whiteout] tag, which hides your text by making it faded.

Though it's not very effective for people who use After Dark.

Yes, it is. (It's blacked out instead.)

 

[aturtledoesbite]

Yeah, but it's far more visible than the main theme's version.

 

[Mogri]

Depends on your settings, I guess. On my monitor, they're both very difficult to see.

 

[Issun]

I found where the tags are. Look out, mofos.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

This there a way to do start and end times for embedded videos? I think during the trial run I found a way to do start times but I don't remember it.

 

[JBear]

This forum supports "following" specific users, if you want to know whenever a specific person posts. That's pretty neat!

I'll probably still stick to using "new posts", but I could see myself using follows if I reach a point in my life where I stop reading *everything*.

 

[Patrick]

You can also watch certain threads, if you only want to know when certain threads update. Or, if there's a thread that updates infrequently and you think it may slip through the cracks.

 

[Mogri]

You can also watch entire subforums, as I recently discovered.

 

[Patrick]

Oooh, nice!

 

[Zef]

What's the difference between "What's new" and "New Posts"?

 

[Mogri]

Underneath the latest posts, "What's new" will show other new things.

 

[Phantoon]

There's also the [whiteout] tag, which hides your text by making it faded.

Though it's not very effective for people who use After Dark.

Ooooohhh yeeeaaaahhh

Is there any way to increase your displayed posts? I used to have 50 posts per page.

 

[Mogri]

There is no way to do that on a per-user basis. I've increased it from 20 to our old default of 30, though.

 

[Phantoon]

Thanks Mogri!

 

[Aleryn]

This isn't a tip, but a thank you for all the various thread tracking tools the mods here oversee. Go dig through the options and lists if you haven't, as this place is so much easier to keep up with than venerable 2.0.

 

[JBear]

Maybe this is intuitive to some folks, but I only discovered it tonight by mistake:

If you highlight a block of text in an existing post and then wait a moment, you'll get a dynamic pop-up that will allow you either "Reply" to that block of text (which embeds it as a quote in the reply box and then jumps to give that box focus at the bottom of the page) or "Quote" it, which adds that block of text as a quote to the multi-quote buffer. So, essentially the same as the buttons on the posts themselves, but without making you manually trim it down after the fact to the relevant portions that you want. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to get a *lot* of mileage out of this particular bit of functionality.

 

[Torzelbaum]

That does sound quite useful. Thanks JBear. You're helping!

 

[aturtledoesbite]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to get a *lot* of mileage out of this particular bit of functionality.

me too

 

[Bulgakov]

functionality.

Also me too.

 

[Destil]

you

post

essential

posts

Well, I try.

 

[Ted]

What's the preferred way of linking to other threads?

I'm concerned that my link will break when we complete the migration and the `absolutelynot` subdomain goes away.

 

[Mogri]

What's the preferred way of linking to other threads?

I think it's to wait a couple days, honestly.

 

[Ted]

Cool; I'll take note and update the link at that time. Thanks!

 

[Bongo]

Hey @Gaer, did you know that if you use the @ symbol to mention a user, not only will it notify them, it will also turn the username into a link to their profile?

 

[Torzelbaum]

I'm not sure if this is a tip or trick or bug or what but I just discovered that when writing a post if you Toggle BB code off then the shortcut keys for bold, italics and underline no longer work. (In Firefox)

 

[Daikaiju]

I'm having some issues looking at PMs I've sent. I wanted to review my list for the Top 50 enemies but I can't seem to locate it.