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[Arryn]

Do one of the admins have a rough guesstimate as to when support for embedded HTML/UBBCODE in Posts will be fixed? Reason I ask is that (at some point) I need to edit all the now-invalid links in my AAR thread and I cannot do that until it's fixed else I'll corrupt each post I edit. I understand Richard et. al. have been real busy thus far fixing the more important DB-related and font issues. I'm just curious (and bumping the issue so it's not overlooked). Thanks.

[Cainehill]

Previously, you could either reply to an individual post in a thread, or simply post a reply to the thread - this seems to no longer be the case.

(Edit : As you can see, this post said, "Re: Arryn" even though it had nothing to do with Arryn's post, simply that I was clicking 'Reply' on a post of hers because there isn't a global reply.)

Also, quoting someone used to say who you were quoting; now there's a separate line/block that says "Quote:" but not who is being quoted, which is rather a waste of space. Is there a way to have that information included, rather than wasting another line to say it yourself?

Finally - there used to be icons for sending email or for sending a private message to someone, and now the icon for email seems to be for forwarding that post to someone via email.

Is there a trick to sending private Messages now, or not implemented yet?

Gracias.

[Truper]

You can still send PMs. Just click on the person's name, and at the bottom of the screen that comes up you'll see an option to send new private message.

[Arryn]

I thought I'd recap some of the issues that remain outstanding after the forum upgrade:

• When replying to Posts, having the person's name to whom you're replying to listed after the word "quote" in the quote block. {fixed}
• An option to automatically have all quoted text shown in boldface (as it was before the upgrade). {fixed, sorta ("whosit said" is now bolded)}
• The ability to post to a thread without using the "reply" button, which is another (convenient) old feature that has not carried over. Oftentimes you may wish to inject a comment or add info that is not directly in response to a particular person's post (or perhaps in response to more than one post or to the thread in general).
• In new Posts, or when editing old Posts, embedded HTML code does not work.
• The ability to seperately thread PMs without also having to thread the main forum (so that PMs work they same way they used to prior to the upgrade).
• The ability for Users to select the font size they wish to display forum Posts in. (I happen to like the current tiny type, which allows me to see more text onscreen, but other folk have monitors or eyeballs with poor resolution.) {fixed, but buggy: selecting "Shrapnel Small" fails to display boldface text like this}
• Have the forum SEARCH feature work the way it used to (which was very good). The current search system is all but useless.

If I've omitted any other issues, feel free to speak up.