Does anyone have problems with replying to posts and quoting them?
For most posts, if I hit "REPLY" button, the body of the message is blank.
Only in 1 in 10 cases, the previous post would be quoted in the web form.
It's been like this for a week or two...
It seems to depend on the content of the quoted post.
I'm using Firefox browser.
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I see now the anouncement made July 20th regarding this behavior.
While I do not agree with the idea, I understand the problem..
For most posts, if I hit "REPLY" button, the body of the message is blank.
Only in 1 in 10 cases, the previous post would be quoted in the web form.
It's been like this for a week or two...
It seems to depend on the content of the quoted post.
I'm using Firefox browser.
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I see now the anouncement made July 20th regarding this behavior.
While I do not agree with the idea, I understand the problem..
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The last post is usually the one most of people want to reply to, and quote it.
I'm not sure what problem this solution is trying to solve?
What difference does it make if someone redundantly quotes 100kB of post #100, or post #101 ?
It's the way we wish the forum to be, its as simple as that 🙂 and it is also in the rules as a 'guideline'
diyAudio Rules
If you are replying to the post immediately above you shouldn't really be quoting it... and this is something we have seen a lot of, and particularly with long posts and posts with embedded images.
So you get a massive quote and then a reply that may just be a couple of words. So we made it less of an automatic choice to do that 🙂
diyAudio Rules
If you are replying to the post immediately above you shouldn't really be quoting it... and this is something we have seen a lot of, and particularly with long posts and posts with embedded images.
So you get a massive quote and then a reply that may just be a couple of words. So we made it less of an automatic choice to do that 🙂
Clutter. It's about visual clutter. This forum is clean and easy to follow due to much work on the part of the moderators. The recent user interface tweak is to make better behavior the default action.
I get making it the default action, but this is the only action
It would be nice to default to reply, but have the option to quote
Brian
It would be nice to default to reply, but have the option to quote
Brian
I know how to do it, I just think there should be a choice within the forum software with a default to reply
No.
No doubt helping the forum achieve much higher levels of awesomeness! Since mods will actually have time to do other stuff than tidying up the unnecessary bits.
Quoting the post above in full just to add the equivalent of:
Is a complete waste of space.
And I think the new function is awesome, soon everyone will get used to it being a standard, then we're all happy. 🙂
It is not the only action.
Quote button is default on every single post in a thread except the last one. That has a Reply button that is a two step to include a quote.
Or did I not understand your point?
One bad habit that clutters posts is posting very large embedded images which require screen resolutions fit for a graphics workstation. Not everyone is a gamer or a graphics designer with extremely powerful GPUs and very large screens.
Large images can use thumbnails to allow those with lower screen resolutions comfortably read posts.
Large images can use thumbnails to allow those with lower screen resolutions comfortably read posts.
Is it working alright for you? We tried to make the change as seamless as possible.It is thanks. Didn't even know multi-quote existed, always done it the long way - works on all the forums that way
Yeah, it took me awhile to find it and use it. Sure is handy. There was another button to the right of Multi-Quote that we got rid of. No one ever seemed to use it. Don't even remember what it was. :xeye"
I'm now less likely to be annoyed by needless clutter in a thread, while my freedom to quote sensibly and selectively remains intact - thanks again guys!
The new DIYAUDIO platform does not seem to allow more than three quotes
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/the-many-dimensions-of-a-hi-fi-system.380577/post-6883493
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...-of-a-hi-fi-system.380577/page-2#post-6886144
Above post links do not take you to the post but that page.
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/the-many-dimensions-of-a-hi-fi-system.380577/post-6883493
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...-of-a-hi-fi-system.380577/page-2#post-6886144
Above post links do not take you to the post but that page.
Testing by highlighting text and clicking reply..