My opinion that I don't have any idea of how to fix is that I find it almost impossible for me to sort out who is responding to who when reading through the responses and even where to put a response I might have. And when reading through the responses, the same response from the same poster will show up repeated over and over as I scroll down through the comments. If poster A makes a comment, why can't all responses to that comment follow it without repeating it and subsequently posted responses each time?
Overall very hard for me to follow.
'we' means community here.
If I recall correctly then one of the leading ideas behind dprevived was 'community driven' - thereby I think using 'we' should not imply that I have to be related to forum team or creators.
Below is a combination of 2 of my posts in other threads where I mentioned CSS styling.
Below is an example of the type of layout you can create using CSS. It is especially useful for displaying images for comparison resized and positioned side by side.
Thanks. I must have missed that request. Did you put in in the requests forum?
Anyway, I'll ask the developers how easy it will be to implement. It may be part of any replacement editor (assuming we do replace it). But before I do, how many of you will actually use it?
Using Dark Reader and a bit of custom CSS* I came to this:
A larger heading font for the first item higher in hierarchy and a slightly larger padding for the items below.
Also added a fix for the exif data text staying black on a dark background.
*for those that want to copy into their own Dark Reader dynamic style developer mode:
I likely will use image styling, if I want to put two images side by side or resize image to smaller one.
Then I would use text styling - old'n'good BBCode includes [color] tag, I have multiple times wanted to make some part of text different color.
Of course new editor may include such options already.
(It is not just editor - content renderer has to know all those possibilities and some filtering must be done.)
Unless the feature is built-in to the editor… I’m unlikely to resort to CSS to format my posts. If it can’t be done using straight-up Markdown, I’m not going to bother, and I'd be surprised if most people would even go that far.
Bob saw the thread but I'm sure he had much higher priorities to deal with at the time.
I certainly will.
Anyone with at least a basic understanding of HTML and CSS styling will be able to take to BBcode and styling like a duck to water. It's only a matter of choice if the feature is of much use to them or not.
Perhaps start a new thread as a poll - feel free to use the demo images I posted in the poll - and see what the response/interest is like.
If fully implementing BBcode, since it is partially implemented already on DPRevived, is quick and easy then I would just do it. If there are significant hurdles to jump over, which I would be surprised, then maybe the demand for BBcode would come into the decision to implement it or not.
It goes in the Dark Reader plugin dev tools. I'm a bit hazy how the code is remembered. I had a quick look at the documentation and it implied that the dev tools was just for prototyping and if you wanted to the code to stick you had to submit it to the Dark Reader dev to add to the code. But I may have misunderstood that. It still seems to be working for me. The only thing I haven't tested is if it still works once I reboot my machine.
Even if it does, this is not a site solution. Every user would have to install Dark Reader and add the code to their installation. What is really needed is access to the CSS that controls the site within the site software.
Is that something you have access to?
ps
"Credit" for this hack should go to Propheticus, not me. I just tweaked what he did (crudely).
I'll put it in the feature request list. But it may have to be part of the redesign of the home page. We are still sorting out priorities, and the new server has been number 1.