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  • Quotes copy the text and not HTML fragments.

    It has always been the case that neither vBulletin BBCode nor the Markdown engine we use knows how to balance HTML (ensure all opening tags have closing tags, and that all closing tags have opening tags), and whilst vBulletin would copy the whole post it was possible to create BBCode that broke a web page.

    With Markdown, and the ability to copy a fragment of a comment, this is far more likely to happen.

    So until the Markdown engine or post-processor supports AST (abstract syntax tree, the foundation for a balanced HTML tree), or Microcosm supports "whole comment quoting" (it won't be possible to only quote a portion of a comment and ensure a balanced tree) the quoting is limited to copying the text (and not the HTML) that you have highlighted.

  • You tease...

  • Moar! Moooaaaar!

  • Done.

    You can ignore people, whole forums, conversations and events by clicking "Ignore" in the right hand bar.

    You cannot ignore yourself (though in many cases I'm sure that would be a heaven-send), and you cannot ignore things you create (frankly you shouldn't create such rubbish that you then need to ignore it).

    You also cannot ignore a huddle, as you can just delete... or ignore a person which prevents them from sending you a message (though they do not know this).

    If you still know the URL of something that you have ignored, you can directly access it still. This also allows you to unignore something.

    And if you have forgotten what you have ignored, visit your own profile and there is a link on the right to the URL I share above that lists the things that you have ignored.

  • Awesome job.

    @EdwardZ is going to get plenty of profile views today...

  • I LOVE YOU*

    *in a completely platonic, non-creepy way, don't trouble with the injunction just yet

  • Thanks, VB.

  • Woop!

    Have just ignored 60% of the forums, so they all nicely fit on one page

    rep to @Velocio

  • Hah!

    140+ ignores added in the first 20 minutes.

    You guys are nuts. But, I guess 7 years of people annoying you is good enough motivation.

  • @Velocio I just ignored a thread yet it is still showing as the last edited thread in that forum, is that expected or just a pure fluke of time?

    I ignored the Bike fit thread


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  • Ignore doesn't take effect on the "Last post" sections.

    You'll see the item listed there, or the author of the most recent comment.

    This is merely because those values are cached.

  • Cool, thought it might be due to that - guess I can live with that ;-)

  • Ignore doesn't take effect on the "Last post" sections.

    Though 'Following' has been gloriously, satisfyingly purged, 'Today' still shows, er, "items" that I don't want to look at. As intended, same kind of deal as "Last post"?

  • Ignorance is bliss.

  • Though 'Following' has been gloriously, satisfyingly purged, 'Today' still shows, er, "items" that I don't want to look at. As intended, same kind of deal as "Last post"?

    Today is a facade of search, and search should exclude ignored items.

    Could you PM me and provide an example of a thing to ignore and it still being visible on the Today page.

  • Yes. Yes, I can.

    PS I still love the ignore function as it is literally the best thing ever

  • What did bothwell say?

  • Shame, that joke doesn't work any more. :)

  • Clarified here: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/255481/#11870043

    Ignoring a person obliterates their comments, and their profile from lists, and their ability to contact you.

    But it doesn't nuke forums they have created or conversations they have authored. The reason being is that these are containers for many people's contributions, and you may well want to avoid the person who started it but still find all of the other stuff valuable.

    Those things can be ignored individually.

    i.e. if you want to ignore me you can (really, you can), but if I had authored the ignore system to hide anything I'd ever started, 90% of the forum would have just been nuked.

    So a difference is perceived... that you can ignore anything I say, and choose to never see my comments... but that the forums, conversations and events I've authored remain (sans-my comments) and act as containers for other people's stuff.

    You would still see my name as the "Started by " text, but you'd never see my comments.

    You can always choose to ignore whole forums, conversations, and events. But that is an explicit thing you do, and not an implicit thing because a person you are ignoring created it.

  • Today is a facade of search

    Very deep. You should send that in to the Readers' Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

  • Eh? But it is...

    https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb/blob/master/today/views.py#L27

    It's just a search for all things since minus one days time.

    Uses the search API, and then just changes the URLs of displayed things to pretend it's a new page.

  • HHGTG. Chapter 2. For that matter, you and BQ having at it has been reminiscent of one of Ford and Zaphod's arguments.

  • Vogon poetry? I thought that was later.

    But just in case, #neverexplain.

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