Forum Upgrade

[TinCow]

Yes, this is happening to me both on Chrome and Opera. I don't think it has any effect on the post itself though.

Hmmm... what versions of those browsers are you running?

[drone]

On the plus side, it looks like the upgrade has improved performance. It used to take forever to go from a sub-fora back to the main forum page (using the Back button), it looked like it was reloading just about everything. Now the back button is quick and easy.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Good job on the update guys!

I've noticed when I type posts sometimes it says "auto-saved". How does that work?

[TinCow]

Good job on the update guys!

I've noticed when I type posts sometimes it says "auto-saved". How does that work?

It backs up everything you type every 30 seconds. If you crash, or the server goes down, or you lose your post in some other manner, all you have to do is go back to the same thread and hit reply again. At the bottom left of the reply box you will see a "Restore Auto-Save" button. Click that, and all the saved text will reappear in the text box. You can test this by typing something, waiting for it to auto-save, then closing the window/tab without submitting the post. Then go back and hit reply to that same thread, and you'll see the button appear. Like this... (At this point, I closed the tab without submitting the post).

After closing this tab without submitting my post, I went back to this thread and the reply box looked like this:


I clicked the button, and then saw this:


I then finished the post, and submitted it.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I noticed that there is no button for Spoilers. I mean, I must type the spoiler tags myself while before I could just use button.

[therother]

We've changed some of the icons: the spoiler tag button is a ! in a red circle.

[TinCow]

Yeah, sorry I didn't announce that. I had to do some bbcode icon changes anyway to get them to work with the new editor. Since the SPOIL icon has always been extremely confusing (it was a duplicate of the Bold icon for reasons I have never understood), I thought it would be good to make it unique. The various icons that say "Spoil" in some fashion all look bad at 16x16, so I went with a the red exclamation mark button as it seemed to convey the proper idea in a more attractive fashion. I also added an icon for the EX tag as well, which I think is a vastly underused bbcode due to the fact that it's never had an icon. It works the same as SPOIL, but is just for hiding extra long text instead of true spoilers. The icon for it on the new editor is , and it works like this:

This is hidden text.
You may find it useful for all those times you use the SPOIL code to hide stuff that isn't actually a spoiler.

[Gregoshi]

It backs up everything you type every 30 seconds. If you crash...

This is worth more than gold.