Nyali she/her Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 On the new site, is it possible to edit the BBCode directly? The graphical editor is VERY glitchy, especially when you include Spoiler tags in PMs. Last time I tried, it looked fine until I sent it, and then in the sent message, the entire message was in the spoiler tag, not just the bit I had marked with spoiler & /spoiler. I couldn't move the bits that weren't supposed to be in the tag outside of the tag because the cursor refused to go before OR after the spoiler box, only inside of it. It took me quite a while to get it to look right, only to have the issue happen again. I think I managed to get it to work, finally, but if I could edit the BBCode directly, I wouldn't have this problem. I can make sure the spoiler tags are in the right spot. Is there a way? I'm kinda getting sick of the new visual editor's quirks. The old one had quirks too, but if anything didn't post right, I could go back and edit the BBCode directly, and I can't seem to anymore.
Chaos he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 This can't be done due to the way the editor works now. This disappoints me as well. Sorry!
Nyali she/her Posted July 5, 2016 Author Posted July 5, 2016 11 minutes ago, Chaos said: This can't be done due to the way the editor works now. This disappoints me as well. Sorry! That's really unfortunate giving how glitchy it is... I've had to fight with it almost every time I posted last night. It doesn't always glitch up, but I'm finding that once it does glitch on a thread, it's going to keep glitching on that thread. There are small glitches too, like cursor jumping, especially when using emoticons. I miss the old site's post features - I would almost always edit in pure BBCode so I knew exactly what I was posting, and so I could copy the contents of a post with tons of formatting off to another text editor in case something glitched during the post. Here, I can't because the formatting doesn't copy right, defeating the purpose of copying off the contents...
Chaos he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 I miss the BBCode editor too. I always typed in BBCode as well. However I have not generally found issues, but I don't generally use heavily formatted contents. The posts are very different in the new version now so I know this is unfortunate but there is nothing that can be done. I don't know what to tell you. I'm happy to look at a specific "glitching" thread. I've encountered no glitching personally. If you leave a page with contents in the editor box it does save it on that page which could be what you're referring to. EDIT: You can still paste in BBCode and it should render properly, but not edit in it because said Source view does not exist any more. 1
Nyali she/her Posted July 5, 2016 Author Posted July 5, 2016 7 minutes ago, Chaos said: EDIT: You can still paste in BBCode and it should render properly, but not edit in it because said Source view does not exist any more. Spoiler tags are often not interpreted correctly in my experience, and once you post, you can't get it back in BBCode view when editing.
Chaos he/him Posted July 5, 2016 Posted July 5, 2016 5 minutes ago, Nyali said: Spoiler tags are often not interpreted correctly in my experience, and once you post, you can't get it back in BBCode view when editing. Maybe paste the BBcode and before you post just add spoilers directly where relevant?
Nyali she/her Posted July 5, 2016 Author Posted July 5, 2016 6 minutes ago, Chaos said: Maybe paste the BBcode and before you post just add spoilers directly where relevant? When it puts everything in a single spoiler tag, removing the others and deleting anything in a nested tag, it's a pain to fix, and you can't just put the new tags back in because you have to remove everything else from the outer spoiler first. That means selecting everything (and ctrl-A doesn't work anymore on this forum), cutting it, hoping your BBCode copies right, deleting the outer spoiler box (because you can't move the cursor before or after it when the entire post is in a single spoiler or quote tag due to another bug), and then pasting it back and putting the spoiler tags back, and then going through and finding if anything was deleted in the process (nested spoilers sometimes are). It's kinda a mess to make heavily formatted posts in the new editor... It was in the old graphical one too which had different but similar problems, but you could go into pure BBCode mode which didn't have those problems.
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