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Welcome to the new forums software! This brings a nicer interface which, notably, works much better on mobile phones. There will undoubtedly be a little rough going as we settle in here. If you have a complaint or suggestion, please reply here. If you're having trouble logging in or posting, you can also email forumchange@twinery.org for help!
Some things we know right now:
- By default, you now see all posts mixed together when you first log in. You can either click a category on the left to see just that, or if you want to make the forum look like it used to, use the All Categories link, also on the left.
- We think everyone's avatar image and password successfully made it over, but you may need to re-upload yours if it doesn't look correct to you. You can do that by clicking the gear icon on the left side of the page and then Edit Profile.
- There are some attachments that got disconnected from their posts during the transition. Most of them came across just fine, though. We're working on getting them reconnected.
Comments
- No quote markup
- No code markup
- No ability to either go to first post or most recent post in a thread
- No support for landscape desktop screens.
but I understand that mobile phone first is a major design point these days.I've turned on the Quote plugin and it seems to work pretty well. After experimenting with WYSIWYG editor options, I've decided to punt on it for now and switch to Markdown, with a toolbar for common formatting choices (including code -- that's the one with the C icon). This doesn't affect existing posts, but will be the setting for new ones.
I've also turned on Gravatars, which only affects folks who don't set an avatar image for this specific forum. It struck me as nice, but I'm open to feedback otherwise!
How do you use code? I seem to be mangling the code... See e.g. my latest post:
http://twinery.org/forum/discussion/2682/sugarcube-sidebars-and-save-files#latest
Random yellow highlighting and the forum deletes all my sugarcube macro examples, so am just left with:
"Put this in your passage: < >"
Which is not very helpful.
It's also messing up css, so the "#" character instead bolds it, making css hard to write out:
body
I figured out that it is < code >
But it still mangles the SugarCube macro syntex, even in < code >.
<< unless you put spaces before and after them >>
If I write that line without the spaces, this happens:
<>
So the main way to put code into Markdown is to use the backtick, or ` character. Surrounding text with them, like this:
`<<if 1 + 1 eq 2>>Yes<<endif>>`
Turns it into:
<<if 1 + 1 eq 2>>Yes<<endif>>You are also able to use HTML in Markdown, so that's why
<code>worked-- but you run into problems with characters getting misinterpreted. I'll go back and edit your post for clarity. And, if there's an overwhelming dislike of Markdown among everyone, I can switch us to BBCode.As a nice bonus, switching to BBCode allows you to write <<macros>> without having to put them in code tags.
Thanks for bearing with us! As you can see, we are still figuring things out.
macros.add("popup", { version: { major: 1, minor: 0, revision: 0 }, handler: function () { if (this.args.length < 2) { var errors = []; if (this.args.length < 1) { errors.push("link text"); } if (this.args.length < 2) { errors.push("passage name"); } return this.error("no " + errors.join(" or ") + " specified"); } var el = document.createElement("a"); el.innerHTML = this.args[0]; el.className = "link-internal link-popup"; el.setAttribute("data-passage", this.args[1]); UISystem.addClickHandler(el, null, function(evt) { var dialog = document.getElementById("ui-body"); $(dialog) .empty() .addClass("dialog popup"); new Wikifier(dialog, tale.get(evt.target.getAttribute("data-passage")).processText().trim()); return true; }); this.output.appendChild(el); } });The actual source is
macros.add("popup", {
version: { major: 1, minor: 0, revision: 0 },
handler: function ()
{
if (this.args.length < 2)
{
var errors = [];
if (this.args.length < 1) { errors.push("link text"); }
if (this.args.length < 2) { errors.push("passage name"); }
return this.error("no " + errors.join(" or ") + " specified");
}
var el = document.createElement("a");
el.innerHTML = this.args[0];
el.className = "link-internal link-popup";
el.setAttribute("data-passage", this.args[1]);
UISystem.addClickHandler(el, null, function(evt) {
var dialog = document.getElementById("ui-body");
$(dialog)
.empty()
.addClass("dialog popup");
new Wikifier(dialog, tale.get(evt.target.getAttribute("data-passage")).processText().trim());
return true;
});
this.output.appendChild(el);
}
});
Additionally:
* Can we get the number of lines in the comment textarea expanded? The default setting really hinders replying with technical details/code, and the way it's currently setup you cannot even use most browser's built-in expansion mechanism to make it larger.
* Can we get the textarea to not be overflow hidden? The default setting makes scrolling around a large reply very bothersome.
* If we're going to be stuck with BBCode, regaining something like the Markdown backtick (e.g. [tt] on the old forums) would be nice, because sometimes you want to show a small bit of code inline.
Depends on which flavor of Markdown you're talking about, some use the triple backtick (```) for code blocks (the single backtick is more for inline code). I'm unsure what's available for Vanilla, but Markdown would be an improvement here as long as would could get a workable code block.
My concern about Markdown is that it does weird things if you don't mark code blocks as such. BBCode at least seems to leave things as-is, if blandly-formatted.
I've made the text box taller and turned the scrollbar back on as you suggested. I've also added a different BBCode parser which seems to fix the quoting issue. It doesn't seem to support [ tt ] -- that appears to have been an SMF extension, going by these docs.
localStorage.getItem('var')
but I have not tried
localStorage.getItem('$var').
For example, this post ...
http://twinery.org/forum/discussion/2614/harlowe-changing-background-color-for-one-chapter#latest
In the first comment from InspectorCaracal, there's a link to another forum post, but when I click on the link, it just takes me to the forum home page. I've been trying to learn about Twine and have been looking through a lot of older posts, and this happens a lot. It's frustrating when you can't find what you want, and it also renders many old posts useless because you can't go to the solution they suggest.
Sorry if I come across as whiny! I'm really excited about Twine and hope to participate in the forums, but I'm on a huge learning curve at the moment. I just wondered if this issue was something the admins were looking at.
I'm de-stickifying this topic since it's been a month since the switchover -- not trying to squelch discussion, just think it doesn't need to be front-and-center.
http://twinery.org/forum/index.php/topic,2372.msg7139.html
and it looks like if you take the number after "topic," and jam it into the new URL format it takes you where you mean to go:
http://twinery.org/forum/discussion/2372
That's the model we can follow to port URL formats when the time comes. Hope that helps as a workaround in the meantime.