Forum Update - April 2, 2009 » Forum Post by GunslingerBara

Forum Update - April 2, 2009

Minor update, but important

By GunslingerBara Posted April 2, 2009 12:12:14

The forums have been updated again today with a minor change. If a user edits his/her post, there will now be a "View Edits" button. Clicking this button will show a history of that reply/post, along with highlights (red = removed text, green = added text).

If you do not see the button or clicking the button does nothing, please do a "hard refresh" by holding Ctrl and pressing F5. This will clear your cache and force a download of the new image and javascript file.

Hopefully this will reduce the amount of griefers who go back and edit all of their posts.

Bara

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I wonder what could possibly have prompted this update!

Great change though, griefers or not it's neat to see edits

I'm seeing a minor problem with very short posts that were edited. The box that pops up isn't long enough, and the "The text in green has been added" or whatever that message says exactly basically runs off the border.

You can see it by opening theleif's edits on the last page of the ban thread thingy: http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/344924/page/7 reply #162 (sorry, was the first one I found )

Super-duper nice. Thanks GunslingerBara!

Very useful. Thanks!

That is cool

Mooster

reply 4

That is cool

It's going to be awesome just to see everyone's typos. Cook.

What typos?

Annatar11

reply 1

I wonder what could possibly have prompted this update!

Great change though, griefers or not it's neat to see edits

I'm seeing a minor problem with very short posts that were edited. The box that pops up isn't long enough, and the "The text in green has been added" or whatever that message says exactly basically runs off the border.

You can see it by opening theleif's edits on the last page of the ban thread thingy: http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/344924/page/7 reply #162 (sorry, was the first one I found )

I see what you mean. I'll edit the CSS and fix that.

Bara

Things are always getting better around here.

Thanks Gun Slinger!

Hopefully this will reduce the amount of griefers who go back and edit all of their posts.

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Thanks Bara. [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Nice add on! Thanks! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

You mean I actually have to pay attention to what I type now?

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It looks like smileys don't show up in the view edits and are just translated to their text codes (I took MottiKhan's bait )

But that's also a minor thinger.

You mean I actually have to pay attention to what I type now?

Only if you wish to prevent future embarassment, so please don't pay attention!

Farking nice, even old posts hold this, so it's not just from today and on.

~skips off to see comments recended by others~

Tossing another edit in for S&G

(I took MottiKhan's bait )

Thanks for playing. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Now where's my cookie?

BTW it seems that if someone forces their text to be a certain color, the red/green won't work. Check any of Gm00nii's posts on this page:

http://forums.galciv2.com/311488/page/16/#replies

Annatar11

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It looks like smileys don't show up in the view edits and are just translated to their text codes (I took MottiKhan's bait )

But that's also a minor thinger.

You mean I actually have to pay attention to what I type now?
Only if you wish to prevent future embarassment, so please don't pay attention!

Yes, edited posts do not run through the same process as regular posts. I'm going to leave it like this for now, as making it translate smileys, quotes, etc. would likely take up too much resources for what it's worth. If I get enough complaints I'll change it though.

Loupdinour

reply 14

Farking nice, even old posts hold this, so it's not just from today and on.

~skips off to see comments recended by others~

Yes, old posts also have the edited data (except for posts edited by moderators or above). Also, older edits do not have breaks in them, so they'll look all scrunched up.

Loupdinour

reply 17

BTW it seems that if someone forces their text to be a certain color, the red/green won't work. Check any of Gm00nii's posts on this page:

http://forums.galciv2.com/311488/page/16/#replies

Hmm... I'll have to figure out how to handle that... maybe give it a background instead of just changing the text color.

Bara

Bara, thank you. [e classic]:congrat:[/e]

I didn't post it as a complaint, just an observation Blame the beta tester in me.

Zubaz

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It's going to be awesome just to see everyone's typos. Cook.What typos?

Zu doesn't know the meaning of the word 'typos', or the meaning of the word 'meaning'. [e digicons][/e]

Yeah, but that's only because he never posts without a dictionary beside the keyboard. And that's why he types at a whopping 2 WPM.

GunslingerBara

reply 18

Hmm... I'll have to figure out how to handle that... maybe give it a background instead of just changing the text color.

At that same post though is a forced background color. I edited my Reply #14 in this thread to have text color as well as background color changes, so you don't need to visit that gc2 thread.

I really don't know what to tell you though...and it would have to be some sort of formatting that we cannot already do. Perhaps too much of an issue to deal with a minority that posts in colors.

~sighs~ Damned typos. When do you think Firefox's spellcheck will work in posts again?

And that's why he types at a whopping 2 WPM.

I've been working *up* to two words per minute for the last three years and now you mock me? [e digicons]

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Zubaz is going to end up spending more time editing than posting!