Forum Update - April 2, 2009
Minor update, but important
Thursday, April 2, 2009 by GunslingerBara | Discussion: Forum Issues
The forums have been updated again today with a minor change. If a user edits his/her post, there will now be a "View Edits" button. Clicking this button will show a history of that reply/post, along with highlights (red = removed text, green = added text).
If you do not see the button or clicking the button does nothing, please do a "hard refresh" by holding Ctrl and pressing F5. This will clear your cache and force a download of the new image and javascript file.
Hopefully this will reduce the amount of griefers who go back and edit all of their posts.
Bara
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Reply #6 Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:41 PM
Reply #7 Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:42 PM
Great change though, griefers or not it's neat to see edits
I'm seeing a minor problem with very short posts that were edited. The box that pops up isn't long enough, and the "The text in green has been added" or whatever that message says exactly basically runs off the border.
You can see it by opening theleif's edits on the last page of the ban thread thingy: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/344924/page/7 reply #162 (sorry, was the first one I found )
I see what you mean. I'll edit the CSS and fix that.
Bara
Reply #8 Thursday, April 2, 2009 1:07 PM
Things are always getting better around here.
Thanks Gun Slinger!
Reply #9 Thursday, April 2, 2009 1:18 PM
Reply #12 Thursday, April 2, 2009 1:38 PM
You mean I actually have to pay attention to what I type now?
Reply #13 Thursday, April 2, 2009 1:44 PM
It looks like smileys don't show up in the view edits and are just translated to their text codes (I took MottiKhan's bait 
)
But that's also a minor thinger.
Only if you wish to prevent future embarassment, so please don't pay attention!
Reply #14 Thursday, April 2, 2009 1:46 PM
Farking nice, even old posts hold this, so it's not just from today and on.
~skips off to see comments recended by others~
Tossing another edit in for S&G
Reply #17 Thursday, April 2, 2009 1:56 PM
BTW it seems that if someone forces their text to be a certain color, the red/green won't work. Check any of Gm00nii's posts on this page:
Reply #18 Thursday, April 2, 2009 2:10 PM
But that's also a minor thinger.
You mean I actually have to pay attention to what I type now?
Only if you wish to prevent future embarassment, so please don't pay attention!
Yes, edited posts do not run through the same process as regular posts. I'm going to leave it like this for now, as making it translate smileys, quotes, etc. would likely take up too much resources for what it's worth. If I get enough complaints I'll change it though.
~skips off to see comments recended by others~
Yes, old posts also have the edited data (except for posts edited by moderators or above). Also, older edits do not have breaks in them, so they'll look all scrunched up.
https://forums.galciv2.com/311488/page/16/#replies
Hmm... I'll have to figure out how to handle that... maybe give it a background instead of just changing the text color.
Bara
Reply #20 Thursday, April 2, 2009 2:18 PM
I didn't post it as a complaint, just an observation 
Blame the beta tester in me.
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Reply #1 Thursday, April 2, 2009 12:17 PM
I wonder what could possibly have prompted this update!
Great change though, griefers or not it's neat to see edits
I'm seeing a minor problem with very short posts that were edited. The box that pops up isn't long enough, and the "The text in green has been added" or whatever that message says exactly basically runs off the border.
You can see it by opening theleif's edits on the last page of the ban thread thingy: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/344924/page/7 reply #162 (sorry, was the first one I found
)