Forum Upgrade

**TinCow** · 06-22-2011, 14:27

Originally Posted by Rhyfylwr

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** · 06-23-2011, 10:48

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** · 06-23-2011, 11:07

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

**TinCow** · 06-23-2011, 14:24

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:

**Peasant Phill** · 06-24-2011, 18:01

I'm unable to post pictures that aren't thumbnails.

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**TinCow** · 06-24-2011, 18:20

Originally Posted by Peasant Phill

I'm unable to post pictures that aren't thumbnails.

The new image link button on the editor has a lot more features than the old one, and you're picking one you don't want. When you click the Image button there will be two tabs, From Computer and From URL.

From Computer is really just an easier way to use the old Attachment system (which is still available via the old interface at the bottom of the Advanced Post screen). You upload a file from your personal computer and it is hosted on the Org. Attachments are displayed in posts as thumbnails, so if you use this method, you will get thumbnails.

From URL has is the new version of the old IMG code system, but it's a bit fancier. You enter the URL of the image and it inserts it into your post like normal. However, there's an extra check box on the From URL screen, and that's the new fancy feature. With the Retrieve remote file and reference locally option enabled, the forums actually download the remote image and make it a locally hosted attachment. This ensures that if the image disappears off of whatever site it's currently hosted on, it will not be lost from your post. However, note that doing this makes it an attachment, just like with the From Computer/Attachment option. Thus, it displays as a thumbnail. In order to get the image to not be a thumbnail, you need to uncheck the box next to Retrieve remote file and reference locally. That will not make it a thumbnail and will instead display it in the old IMG code fashion.

Note that if you upload an image as an attachment with either method, you can remove it via the Manage Attachments option at the bottom of the Edit Post screen.