A few people testing my new forums have all asked the same thing....

Where are the graemlines on the quick reply form? On classic there is a link to a popup where they appear? Seems 3 out of 3 testers missed that straight away.

Any way to get that going?

The quick reply box is designed to be a "completely barebones" way to create posts; it's ment to have 0 additional options (other than the adding of ones signature) as the extended options are all listed on the full reply page.

One thing you have to keep in mind is that Threads and Classic existed side by side for years, each having their own development teams, where they both had similar features, they both had their own spins on how the features where rolled out.

OK understood. But my users are used to it. Any way to modify it?

A hack, which one would generally obtain from UBBDev, but I don't believe one is currently available.

OK I will post a message on there then. Thank you.

:lol: 7 people have tested our forums. For every single one of them this was their very first (and almost immediate!) comment.

I find that scary... lol... No one ever uses them on my site, short of typing in their codes...

Got to agree (and have mentioned it before) that the quick reply box needs a link to a graemlins pop-up box - and maybe a pop-up box for other items such as underline, bold, youtube etc...

It is most frustrating when you start to type a reply and want to add some extra content (even links) and can't remember the syntax - the only alternative is to cut and past the message typed so far and click on a reply button.

If we had the option to go to the full reply page, keeping the text entered in so far, it wouldn't be so bad.

And before any says 'it is easy to remember' - I am disabled, and have a poor brain at times, so can't always remember the simple items

I like the idea of an "advanced" button, which will shift your entered content to the full reply box...

I think the route we'll take is a link to switch to the full reply form. The quick reply is meant to be just that, to type a quick reply. So instead of adding more to the quick reply form, we'll just add a link that will switch you over to the full reply form with what you have typed so far intact.

Yep Sounds good to me

hehe, love it...

Yip!

Notice the changelog

This was also one of the first things I noticed while testing (I still am in the midst of it before our relaunch on Tuesday)

Rick, how do we add the "Switch to Full Reply Screen" Button?

You will need to upgrade / update your version of threads.

Its not available to us yet,
as its still in testing debugging.

Shouldn't be too long, a few weeks ( at a guess)