Now i've noticed the post icons when replying i can't say i'm a fan of them either, given that they are entirely up to the poster and so somewhat arbitary, but i can live with them. The travails of running a forum.Chuck wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:14 amWhat do you know, removing topic icons removed the new post icon. Can't have that!totsuzenheni wrote: ↑Sun Jan 13, 2019 10:51 am The 'new post(s)' icon is useful, so please do keep that.
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Totsuzenheni Yukimi
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I have a list of sites too at:
https://pacomiscelaneousstuff.blogspot. ... world.html
As I'm going to copy the ones you have missing in my blogpost, it will be fair for you to copy the ones missing in your list.
As I see it, the problem with the topic icons is that they're small images crudely expanded. Which looks butt ugly.
(Edit: post icons as opposed to thread icons aren't expanded, so the "radioactive icon" I chose for this post looks reasonable. We're discussing the enlarged original post icons used for the forum post lists)
Maybe a solution would be not to disable icons in settings as you have tried, but instead disable our ability to choose icons (on the create thread page). I mean, if the ability to change the default "none" choice was removed, I imagine the problem would just go away. I imagine something like this* would have to be changed in the code to make the icon choice line disappear: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p13705221
Another way might be to simply replace the actual icon files (in your forum software installation directory) with "empty" icons. (That is, squares filled with whatever colour that registers as "transparent") You would still have the "Post Icon: choice" but you couldn't choose anything that actually shows up.
A third way is of course to have better-looking (=higher-resolution) icon pics
*) Of course, I know nothing about phpbb coding or even if you have the same version so please feel free to disregard.
Would it be possible to get a spoiler tag? I never know how much I can/should say in threads where potential players of campaigns being discussed might be reading. (I mean, they could just read what's in the spoilered text anyway, but it's the thought that counts.)
That's more or less just what I had in mind, thanks. The only slight issue is it works fine for separate paragraphs, but doesn't really work for popping a spoiler into a sentence
E.g. Testing to see how work in the middle of a sentence.
E.g. Testing to see how
Spoiler
spoiler tags
Some (but far from all) forums support both SPOILER and SBLOCK tags.
(The tag discussed above looks much like a SBLOCK tag to me. A SPOILER tag would work much like a bold or italics tag - with no line breaks or paragraphing formatting - and thus be more suitable for hiding individual words in a sentence)
(The tag discussed above looks much like a SBLOCK tag to me. A SPOILER tag would work much like a bold or italics tag - with no line breaks or paragraphing formatting - and thus be more suitable for hiding individual words in a sentence)
Experimenting...
Yep, you can set a "title" to explain what clicking "show" would reveal, i.e. replacing the word "spoiler" (quote me to see the syntax).
[sblock]sblock[/sblock]
Nope
[hide]hidden[/hide]
Nope
I did a quick scan of the phpbb forum, but couldn't immediately find any discussion that distinguished between "inline" and "block" spoilers...
title
text
[sblock]sblock[/sblock]
Nope
[hide]hidden[/hide]
Nope
I did a quick scan of the phpbb forum, but couldn't immediately find any discussion that distinguished between "inline" and "block" spoilers...
I am sorry to be the bearer of more not-positive feedback but the thread icons are really unintuitive and also osbcured by thread icons.
The default thread icon is(?) a minus sign. I believe that means "no unread posts" as opposed to a green check mark. But in subforums with no new posts, that minus sign is really unintuitive: doesn't a minus signal a locked thread?
Then you have the "circling planets". Are they supposed to signal you have posted in the thread (the first post and subsequent posts respectively)? Sorry but that makes no sense and I can understand that only by comparing various threads - there is nothing in the visual representation that gives me a hint.
Finally, if a thread starter chooses a thread icon, this overlays this information almost completely.
I must say something went wrong here. I imagine most other forum skins would convey this info in a better way.
I should also say this is of course minutae. You are still my hero for setting up this forum at all
The default thread icon is(?) a minus sign. I believe that means "no unread posts" as opposed to a green check mark. But in subforums with no new posts, that minus sign is really unintuitive: doesn't a minus signal a locked thread?
Then you have the "circling planets". Are they supposed to signal you have posted in the thread (the first post and subsequent posts respectively)? Sorry but that makes no sense and I can understand that only by comparing various threads - there is nothing in the visual representation that gives me a hint.
Finally, if a thread starter chooses a thread icon, this overlays this information almost completely.
I must say something went wrong here. I imagine most other forum skins would convey this info in a better way.
I should also say this is of course minutae. You are still my hero for setting up this forum at all
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Totsuzenheni Yukimi
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I didn't find this unintuitive.CapnZapp wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 2:41 am I am sorry to be the bearer of more not-positive feedback but the thread icons are really unintuitive and also osbcured by thread icons.
The default thread icon is(?) a minus sign. I believe that means "no unread posts" as opposed to a green check mark. But in subforums with no new posts, that minus sign is really unintuitive: doesn't a minus signal a locked thread?
I don't know what these mean either.CapnZapp wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 2:41 amThen you have the "circling planets". Are they supposed to signal you have posted in the thread (the first post and subsequent posts respectively)? Sorry but that makes no sense and I can understand that only by comparing various threads - there is nothing in the visual representation that gives me a hint.