Topic: Notes about the OW.net forums

[scottws]

• Max avatar size - 100x100 px
• Max image size - 1024x768 px.  You can post larger images, but they will be contained in their own scrolling box.
• Spoiler tags - No longer is it necessary to post "*** SPOILERS ***" with a bunch of whitespace.  Use the spoiler tag feature!  Just contain the part of the post that is a spoiler in tags: [spoiler][/spoiler]
• Search - It works!
• Quotes - The board automatically strips out only the most recent quote when you push the quote button, so you don't get those posts that have like 9 quotes nested inside one another.
• AJAX editing - You no longer have to load a new window to edit posts.  Just push the little paper and pencil icon to the right of your post, and it will change to a window where you can edit the post text.  Push save to return to the regular view, with the changes in place.
• RSS feed - If you are using Firefox, you should see an RSS icon in the right side of the address bar.  You can create a RSS bookmark, or use another RSS reader.  Basically it's the five newest posts on the forum.
• Number of saved private messages - The more posts you make, the more private messages you are allowed to keep as you move up in posting groups.  This is a way to reward our long-term members and save database space with shorter-term members.
• Private message labels - You can create lables for private messages and organize them into groups that way, which can be handy.

More to come.

[Quemaqua]

Go us!

[idolminds]

Hooray for

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spoilers!

[Ghandi]

Just found something out. If you are replying to a thread, and someone else adds a new reply before you get yours in, it will tell you when you hit send, and refresh your reply page with the new reply. Kinda neat.

[scottws]

Yeah, I saw that earlier.  Not sure how useful it really is, but it is definately a... um... feature.

[Pugnate]

Just found something out. If you are replying to a thread, and someone else adds a new reply before you get yours in, it will tell you when you hit send, and refresh your reply page with the new reply. Kinda neat.

I thought that was pretty neat.

[Cobra951]

That already saved me once from having to edit a post.  Was replying to Scott, a new post went up in the meantime, and the board warned me before accepting my post.  So I added "To Scott:" at the top.  That is useful.

[MysterD]

that spoiler tag looks SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.

[ren]

You can enable the Quick Reply function in your profile. It's all I ever used at TME so I'm happy it's still an option here.

[scottws]

It is supposed to be enabled by default.

[ren]

Oh, it was. The Default is "show, off by default" I switched it to on by default so it's always open. Before I looked in the settings I didn't realize the blue bar at the bottom was to be clicked for Quick Reply to come up.

[scottws]

Ah.  Gotcha.  Yeah, the original default from a fresh install of the forum is no quick reply at all. Kind of lame, considering the "show, off by default" setting is very unobtrusive whilst still useful.

[ren]

The Statistics feature is awesome. There's just something about useless information on my posting patterns I love so much.

[Pugnate]

I just checked it out. Yes it is.

[Raisa]

I don't like the stats feature.  and I think i will despise it even more when i go on my disappearing acts.

[Pugnate]

Your job never ends.

[Raisa]

thank god or i'd be bored to death.