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

Published on March 22, 2011 By GunslingerBara In Forum Issues

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

Comments (Page 4)

Uvah

on Mar 23, 2011

Lets see if it works. Yup. Workin'

GunslingerBara

on Mar 23, 2011

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

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.

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?

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

Daiwa

on Mar 23, 2011

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

GunslingerBara

on Mar 23, 2011

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.

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

Daiwa

on Mar 23, 2011

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

I'm using IE8 at the moment.

Daiwa

on Mar 23, 2011

Clicking Post Reply just brought me back to my post #50, so maybe it was a refresh issue, either locally or on your server.

Sorry to have caused confusion, Bara. Looks like those things are indeed fixed.

Daiwa

on Mar 23, 2011

Strange. The 'wrong' behavior is back with the 'Go to last read reply' button as well as with posting replies. I'll log off & reboot the machine, report back, as at the moment the 'fix' is fickle.

Cruxador

on Mar 23, 2011

I've been having forum problems lately in Chrome. The reply box is just a blank square, without any UI features. The reply and quote buttons do nothing. Line breaks also do not work. I tested on Firefox and everything works perfectly there. I didn't check other browsers, but I'd imagine they'd work fine.

Daiwa

on Mar 23, 2011

After a reboot, the 'Go to last read reply' button seems to be working.

EDIT:

And 'Post Reply' brings you back to the reply as it should.

I can only assume it's been a 'cache' issue through the day.

GunslingerBara

on Mar 23, 2011

Cruxador

reply 53

I've been having forum problems lately in Chrome. The reply box is just a blank square, without any UI features. The reply and quote buttons do nothing.
Line breaks also do not work. I tested on Firefox and everything works perfectly there. I didn't check other browsers, but I'd imagine they'd work fine.

Hmm... I noticed something similar after the first update but haven't been able to reproduce it. It may be a bug with the editor the forums use, TinyMCE. I'll keep an eye out for updates in case they fix it.

Bara

wilebill

on Mar 23, 2011

Very impressive work! You really put out some effort on this! Thank you!

Stant123

on Mar 23, 2011

Thanks for all of the hard work Bara.

Dr Guy

on Mar 24, 2011

Reading through the comments I see I was not the only one with issues - but this morning they seem to be all better! Gunslinger had a late night! And well done sir!

Uvah

on Mar 24, 2011

That's cause he's 'quick' on the 'draw'.

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