• Members 3891 posts
    March 27, 2023, 10:59 a.m.

    On another forum I post on BBcode is enabled and it allows users to customise the layouts of the content in their posts.
    For me it is most useful to customise the sizing and laying out of multiple images in posts to something like below. It could be very useful for members at least in the Samples and Galleries Forum.

    From what I see in the post editor, a very basic implementation of BBcode is currently enabled. The [img] tag is enabled but its "style" attribute, or equivalent, is not which means image layouts cannot be customised.

    I know you have higher priorities at the moment but hopefully this enhancement query, to fully implement BBcode, can be put on your to-do list, at least at the bottom.

    bbcodeDemo.jpg

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    Thread title has been changed from Is/Will BBcode Be Implemented On DPRevived.

  • March 27, 2023, 11:07 a.m.

    I can't say whether it will because I' have no idea what's actually going to happen, but It looks good, so I think that it should. I'm trying to put together a development proposal at the moment, now the bugs have gone, for now. The basic idea is that we should do everything that makes the experience better for people.
    I saw your conversation on dpreview.communitydummy.com. That looks very slick - I'm trying to discuss with the owner about how to avoid fragmenting the community (i.e. working together, as Alan and I have).

    I know you have higher priorities at the moment but hopefully this enhancement query, to fully implement BBcode, can be put on your to-do list, at least at the bottom.

  • Members 3891 posts
    March 28, 2023, 3:50 a.m.

    I would typically use BBcode to layout images side by side when displaying "Before" and "After" versions or for other comparison type situations.

    Being able to control the size of images and how they are laid out in a post can make a post much more user friendly and easier on the eyes compared to having a series of largish thumbnails laid out vertically.

    Being able to control size and position of images is also very useful when explaining something in a post where you include images. Positioning the image say on the right side of the post and appropriately sizing it with the explanation text to the left and wrapping around underneath the image makes it much more user friendly to the reader of the post.

    Hopefully somewhere in your Admin control panels it would be just a matter of clicking a few toggle switches or similar to enable BBcode.

  • Members 510 posts
    March 28, 2023, 4:20 a.m.

    Are you bob, posting as root? If so I want to ask why you chose a forum that makes things differently than more traditional software when you want the usual features, like threaded view and BBCode? Just curious. 😉

  • Members 510 posts
    March 28, 2023, 4:43 a.m.

    BBCode (Bulletin Board Code) +forums have been around since the late 1990s and works okay on a desktop computer, then and now. It does not display great on a mobile / portable device today.

    Yes, I know, many of us are creatures of habit and do not like change.
    But… this is 2023 and if you don’t move with the times, you get left behind. lol

  • Members 3891 posts
    March 28, 2023, 9:20 a.m.

    Thanks Greg. But unfortunately all of the Markdown resizing coding options don't seem work in posts.

    Hopefully configuring site settings to allow images to be resized and repositioned (with BBcode or Markdown) will eventually float to the top of bobn2's to-do list at some point. It's not a high priority at the moment.

  • March 28, 2023, 9:36 a.m.

    Yes it was me, I'm trying to avoid using the root account for posts, but once or twice I get confused. The choice process had to be very quick. I had a few rules. I already wanted to use something based on Django, so it had the potential to grow and was robust. I really didn't want a gargantuan PHP spaghetti tree, my experience with those is that they are just trouble. There are some really big sites using Django, so I had confidence in it. So then I looked at the forum options for Django, there are a few but I wanted one that was still active and under maintenance. In the end, that with a few other considerations took it down to two. I tried the other one, which was prettier, but had some quite serious structural and reliability issues. Time was short and misago had a really sorted installation route, so there it was. The piece of serendipity is the the misago author and project lead has joined the forum, so we're in a good place with respect to advice and guidance as we start to develop. We'll probably be creating our own fork and making it do what we want.

  • March 28, 2023, 9:37 a.m.

    Yes, the post editor really needs some work.

  • Members 510 posts
    March 28, 2023, 9:48 a.m.

    I’m sure that things will eventually get ironed out.

    Just think of it like this Danno old bean…
    Bob, Alan and their "motley crew” have just taken over the USS Enterprise and we are traveling at warp factor 9.2
    and… they cannot locate the user manual!

  • March 28, 2023, 9:51 a.m.

    And Scotty's no help, he just keeps on going on about 'the laws of Physics'.

  • Members 3891 posts
    March 28, 2023, 9:58 a.m.

    :-D

  • Members 1068 posts
    March 28, 2023, 12:26 p.m.

    There is no way I will use my phone to read a graphic heavy site like this. Text based forums yes, but even then I switch to pc to view web links etc. Even mobile optimised web sites don't cut it on phones (for me anyway)...

  • Members 62 posts
    March 28, 2023, 12:50 p.m.

    I read DPR on a tablet all the time. Phone is a last resort, but will rarely use one.

  • Members 510 posts
    March 28, 2023, 1:05 p.m.

    Apologies to Jerry, it was the first random post with a photo that I found.
    Here’s the thing, I was a Motorola flip phone guy until March last year, now I have three iPhones.
    Late adopter, pleasantly surprised with a mature device and a stable iOS

    I use a Mac mini and a 24" screen to access the internet.


    1947: John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, with support from colleague William Shockley, demonstrate the transistor at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It's been called the most important invention of the 20th century.

    Today, the Apple A16 Bionic chip that powers the iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone Pro Max, employs, wait for it… 16 billion transistors.

    Just sayin’

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  • Members 510 posts
    March 28, 2023, 8:58 p.m.

    That was interesting to learn about.Thanks for explaining.