New forum features

gorkem

Hi Giderans,

We have made some small but nifty changes to our forum, which runs Vanilla (http://www.vanillaforums.org). Here's a list of these additions and changes: 

• Instead of using plain old text edit screen, our forum now benefits from TinyMCE, so you can use rich text in your questions and answers. 
• On the right hand side you'll see top posters till now. 
• Vanilla Forums has been upgraded from 0.17 to 0.18 which looks much nicer around.

Our web page now includes a mobile friendly theme if you open it in your mobile phone also. 

PS: If you haven't done so, please don't be shy and say "hi" in our "Introduce Yourself" category.. Also do not forget to update your attractive avatar!

PS2: Forum talk category is open for everyone - so send your bugs, comments and critics regarding forum directly here.

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Gideros Team

Millerszone

The updated "Vanilla Forum" is nice. Really like the TinyMCE.
When adding code to our post, do we still have to add pre lang="lua" or
Is there a icon for code like images or links?

gorkem

Let's try

<pre lang="lua">

a = {{"one", "two"}, 3}

b = {k = a[1]}

</pre>

Let's see how it works here.

gorkem

Let's try again.

a = {{"one", "two"}, 3} b = {k = a[1]}

try #2

gorkem

Ok, if you want to use the Lua coloring feature, you need to switch to source view, by clicking on the very last icon on the tray. It's the rightmost icon in the lower line of tray.

A bit cumbersome it may look, let's see how it goes. If people do not like it or it's not evident at first sight, we can switch back.

gorkem

I've removed wysiwyg feature. Reasons:

1. Quoting is very hard, if not possible
2. Syntax highlighting is not intuitive.

MikeHart

How to post lua code, so it get's nicely formated/highlighted?

gorkem

Like that:


< pre lang="lua">
a = {{"one", "two"}, 3}
b = {k = a[1]}
< /pre>

Remove the whitespace

MikeHart

Thanks, reading your posts above, I thought that the pre statements don't work.

chipster123

So what are the tags supported in this forum now? A concise list is all that's needed.

gorkem

You can define your own tags.

MikeHart

What he ment is that we would like to see a list of supported tags that we have to use to format our posts.

Caroline

If you click on Discussions at the top of this page, then you will see the most used tags half way down the page on the right, so that gives an idea of what we should be using. (To be honest, I haven't considered tags when creating threads, so that is one thing that should probably be encouraged.)

One problem is that ugg and tiffany and sale are really popular. Is it possible when cleaning up spam posts to delete the tags too?

gorkem

Oh I see. Will do that. Thanks.

moopf

@Caroline, I think @chipster123 means formatting tags (like < a > < pre > etc.) rather than keyword tags.

gorkem

Ugg & tiffany removed

Caroline

@moopf - doh! Seconded, if I haven't elsewhere.

Thanks, gorkem .

chipster123

Sorry about the confusion. Mike understood. I meant formatting tags like pre. The subject tags never entered my mind until the response flow. Funny how people see things differently.

gorkem

@chipster123 basically all basic HTML tags are supported like a, p, br, b, i, strong, h etc, plus it understands vimeo and youtube links so you can directly paste your video URL here and it previews online.

chipster123

excellent!

Zoyt

**So, just a little suggestion, can you add the "who's online" feature please?**

evs

I HAD:



PLUS



AND



IT WAS

OZApps

@ar2rsawseen, the suggestion made by @Zoyt is something that would be quite useful. To indicate if anyone is online or not.

ar2rsawseen

@OZApps when I thought of working for Gideros, I knew I would work on plugins, I just did not know it would be forum plugins
I've enabled one to show whos online, let's see how it works

OZApps

So do we get like Green circles, light bulbs, text?

ar2rsawseen

Unfortunately no, only Who's online list under the top posters

keszegh

@ar2rsawseen, is it not possible to make an icon in the write comment area (next to smileys e.g.) which adds the lua pre things to add nice code? each time i want to add code i have to search for 5 minutes on the forum until i find the right syntax (in this topic). also i see other people too struggling with this (at least once in their life, in my case 100 times). perhaps this would be even more useful then smileys, i dare to say.

jeromegsq

@keszegh
@ar2rsawseen

I think it will be a good thing !
Please make it, it will be very usefull for us and for the readers

ar2rsawseen

If someone can find VanillaForum addon that does this, I will add it
http://vanillaforums.org/addons

keszegh

perhaps you can make sense of this:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/20558/how-to-add-a-custom-button
related to this plugin:
http://vanillaforums.org/addon/802/button-bar

ar2rsawseen

First step done