cls74 Posted October 10, 2017 at 02:55 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 02:55 AM Namely the quoted post/replies. This is the only site I use that uses a chaining(not sure if proper term) of replying to others posts and quoting them. I can actually see why no other forums utilize it. Once the back and forth gets too mny replies the post gets an error that too many quotes are included. That in turn makes people have to get creative by removing brackets or something else. The result is either a jumbled mess of hard to read garble or what appears to be one member making the entire quoted post. Any way to make it simpler to where it only uotes the user of that reply and any reply he/she quoted will not train onto it? Would mke things a lot simpler, cleaner and more user friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glock23 Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:09 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:09 AM That would be great. Plus, editing quotes in Tapatalk to get rid of the extraneous stuff tends to result in ones own post being a block of text absent any line breaks or post-sentence spacing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C0untZer0 Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:32 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:32 AM I think they would have first have to have been vamped in order to be re-vamped, and they were never vamped I think this forum software has to be dumped and something like the latest versions of vBulletin or ZenForo stood up in its place... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glock23 Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:42 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:42 AM Ah contraire, they've been being "vamped" for many years now... How often have we been told they're switching to new servers/software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C0untZer0 Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:50 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:50 AM Whenever I use an apostrophe in TapaTalk it comes out as â so when I say "the left's" it shows up as "the leftâs" - I think it still makes sense though somehow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C0untZer0 Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:54 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 05:54 AM This is the only site I use that uses a chaining(not sure if proper term) of replying to others posts and quoting them. I can actually see why no other forums utilize it. The Firing Line lets you chain quotes if you want - but you have a lot more control over it. You sort of have a clipboard of quotes that you can cache. And they offer a feature where if you highlight any section of characters from someone else's post you can make a direct reply to just that word, sentence or paragraph. So they have a couple of different tools and its more versatile... But I think they use ZenForo now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glock23 Posted October 10, 2017 at 06:07 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 06:07 AM Whenever I use an apostrophe in TapaTalk it comes out as â so when I say "the left's" it shows up as "the leftâs" - I think it still makes sense though somehow...Are you on an Apple phone? I subscribe to another board where apostrophes in Tapatalk turn into question marks. They work fine for me, though.. on Android, Galaxy S8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C0untZer0 Posted October 10, 2017 at 06:30 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 06:30 AM Ya iPhone and I had just loaded the latest update from TapaTalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yyyz Posted October 10, 2017 at 09:25 AM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 09:25 AM Whenever I use an apostrophe in TapaTalk it comes out as â so when I say "the left's" it shows up as "the leftâs" - I think it still makes sense though somehow...Are you on an Apple phone? I subscribe to another board where apostrophes in Tapatalk turn into question marks. They work fine for me, though.. on Android, Galaxy S8. The strange characters are probably because your Tapatalk is sending Unicode characters or is using characters out of the normal Ascii range... don't blame the board, blame Tapatalk. The board is merely posting what is received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InterestedBystander Posted October 10, 2017 at 12:33 PM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 12:33 PM Ah contraire, they've been being "vamped" for many years now... How often have we been told they're switching to new servers/software?Not sure what the currently installed vs available version of board software is. My impression is it is several years old and had plenty of spit, bailing wire and chewing gum applied to date. Whether it be avatars, image posting, file attachments, the board just hanging, improved search function, https, etc...it could use a refresh. Not something easy and will no doubt bring some pain. Not long ago there were mentions of testing the new version. Maybe we could get an update on that? Any chance there will be an opportunity to beta test it before it goes live to get some extra feedback? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglebob Posted October 10, 2017 at 01:17 PM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 01:17 PM I've been wondering why the "View New Content" feature doesn't work anymore. I used to get right to it. Now it always says "No new content". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Posted October 10, 2017 at 03:04 PM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 03:04 PM You are all implying that you want a change in the site. I remember the last big change here and everyone was up in arms(no pun intended). That was probably 6 or 7 years ago at this point. Everyone here was lost in space trying to figure out the new format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmagloo Posted October 10, 2017 at 04:00 PM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 04:00 PM Simple setting to limit the number of quotes. However, I'm not sure there is a good reason to allow more than 4 quotes? Just remove the oldest one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauserme Posted October 10, 2017 at 04:24 PM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 04:24 PM The forum was limited to 3 nested quotes several years ago. Before that it wasn't unusual for a single group of quotes to take most of the page and make the thread almost impossible to follow. Sometimes including the 2 or 3 quotes is necessary for clarity, sometimes not. Users can delete the extras before posting if they aren't needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauserme Posted October 10, 2017 at 04:29 PM Share Posted October 10, 2017 at 04:29 PM I've been wondering why the "View New Content" feature doesn't work anymore. I used to get right to it. Now it always says "No new content". There are filters along the left side of the new content page that might be limiting what you see. If you checked "Just Items I Follow" and haven't followed any topics, for example, you won't see anything. I usually use "Past Year" and none of the "Other" categories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cls74 Posted October 11, 2017 at 02:25 AM Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 at 02:25 AM The forum was limited to 3 nested quotes several years ago. Before that it wasn't unusual for a single group of quotes to take most of the page and make the thread almost impossible to follow. Sometimes including the 2 or 3 quotes is necessary for clarity, sometimes not. Users can delete the extras before posting if they aren't needed.If there was an easy way to delete a single quote it wouldn't be an issue. But trying to find the brackets to a specific quote isn't simple on mobile devices. Trying to highlight and delete the text while scrolling etc. There is a multiquote feature that is much simpler to do, can reply to each reply individually with separate quotes highlighted. I have given up trying to respond to a particular post so many times I can't count them due to too many quotes. Others that do get nested(thanks for the term) get replies mixed into the quoted body and the ones that do get replied to correctly I doubt many reread the entire ongoing converstaion within the quote before reading the reply. Only my opinion, and thought I would opine it lol Thanks for all you do, even if this will not change in the near term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauserme Posted October 11, 2017 at 02:30 AM Share Posted October 11, 2017 at 02:30 AM We're working on the update. I took a quick look and didn't see any options that aren't already available but maybe there are things I'm not seeing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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