I tried reading a bit and I dont quite get how to star a whole thread in the way we did before - I want to get a notification whenever a new post shows up in thread X.
Bookmarking seems to be for specific posts within a thread? So you can like bookmark the root or whatever but if someone replies to a post in the thread will it show up? Or can a bookmark be applied to a whole thread? And then what is the difference of that and tracking/watching with the dropdown at the bottom of the thread?
I guess my real question is if our old star function for a thread is more like a bookmark or more like tracking.
Bookmarking as I understand it is like bookmarking a tab or a page in a book. You’re just looking to keep a list of references that you can look at easily later.
in flarum you could just type @ana and i would appear. just check and it doesn’t seem to be possible here. maybe it’s about time to change my username! new forum new me.
For some reason I don’t get this option when I go into preferences…
Also @shane or @moderators (hey look you can tag moderators as a group (wait, actually, it’s saying that I can’t do that, but that would be a useful thing no?)) is it not too late to get the temporary magic edit powers?
If I understand correctly, Discourse uses Markdown-it ( https://markdown-it.github.io/ ) as a basis for its formatting and syntax. Is there a way to get that code formatting in here? Having syntax highlighting when I paste in some Lua is nice for readability.
Maybe this is a good time to I guess request a feature, maybe also because Discourse’s interface and features would make this more intuitive and useful than it has been with Flarum.
We have a few threads dedicated to conversations in languages other than English, either for people to converse in their mother tongues with other speakers on the forum, or for those learning those languages to be able to practice. There is the Spanish one as well as the French one, I can’t remember if there were any others.
I have long thought we should have a post category for non-English language threads, maybe not one for each non-English language but at least one category for all of the threads dedicated to conversation in non-English languages. Mainly because they get buried really easily since this is such an English language dominated forum.
Would Discourse make this kind of thing more intuitive/possible/convenient?
As far as I’ve been able to tell, it’s not possible to stretch an image using the Markdown syntax (though it does allow you to set a width or height to scale the image to proportionally) – but you can use a HTML img tag: (The image here is not only minimized, but stretched as well.)
The syntax for this is <img src="[…]" width=123 height=456> – for example, the image above has the source <img src="upload://ikwBl6z4zZKW3XIoX3jSPFWIwi6.png" width=64 height=48>.
I don’t know if it was markdown but this was possible on the old forum with [img width=420 height=69]image_url.jpeg[/img] for example. It’s cool we can use html here though.
I ran out of edits for today and I thought they were still going through but then I refreshed the page and all the ones I’d done since the first warning reverted. ;_; I saved one big edit I made to someone’s post I’ll apply when the cooldown is over.
I used to find the thread list easier to parse when I could see the avatar of the thread creator next to its title. Would it be possible to add this functionality with Discourse?
I haven’t found any way to force, via text, a reply to a post - only via clicking the button. However quotes still work. I’m not sure if this is possible or feasible via the mobile interface, but on a desktop browser at least one can highlight text upthread and click on quote to blockquote/reply to those in context.
eg,
apologies for the tag/notification but this is just for illustrative purposes here
Also I saw @rejj mentioning that the smallest font size worked better for them and I have to agree. At least on a 27 inch monitor having the smallest font setting but then zooming in with my browser makes this new forum a bit more familiar.
(The image here is not only minimized, but stretched as well.)