Boards is missing lots of staple thread add-ons

Ouroboro·11/13/2014, 9:10:04 PM·6 votes·1,651 views

As of the new Boards, the following thread options have been removed:

Can no longer underline posts

Can no longer center posts

Can no longer format posts right

Can no longer bold red posts

Soundcloud links no longer play on the post, sends you another website instead to the track

Hell, italics and bold don't even work have the time. Why do we need this you say? For variety. The more we can customize our posts, the more appealing they can be, for example, on Old GD (The thread formatting on Old GD was 100x than this, but that's why I'm giving feedback.) I could do something like this:

http://puu.sh/cPw6h/eace0c674e.jpg

This was an interactive story thread I made on old GD (which i finished thanks to the threat of boards killing GD), and as you can see I utilized literally every tool the forums used to format it to my liking.

On these new forums, I can literally do none of these. It really depresses me that I can't do as much to posts as I used to even though this is supposedly an upgrade from the old forums. Please consider improving threads Riot.

-Ouroboro

15 Comments

Ouroboro11/14/2014, 12:20:33 AM1 votes

bump

Ouroboro11/15/2014, 7:10:20 AM1 votes

bump

Elphrihaim11/15/2014, 7:33:22 PM1 votes

You can actually use bold/italics on the same line and exit italics in a line but the system handles it very badly.

For example, bold, filler text text text exit* text text text* exit*.*

You can't do "[i]textextextextexttext[/i]texttestxtext[i]textextext[/i]", you have to have a space after or before a formatting mark. Which does not actually get eaten-- So you can't reliably format.

What's stupider is that if I do "[i]textext[b]textext[/i]text[/b]" it doesn't work.

texttext texttexttext text text text

Which I admit is not something one would actually use... almost ever, but it'd be really nice to have.

Oh, and that formatting isn't kept between lines is really annoying. For example

[i]this line and this one are italicized[/i]

doesn't translate, you have to do

*this line and* *this one are italicized*

Which eats up a lot of the (absolutely ridiculously tiny) character limit if you use newlines to separate content to make it more understandable.


on a completely unrelated note I keep seeing myself in the reflection of my monitor because these boards are so dark and it's actually very distracting

Arduno11/17/2014, 12:18:42 PM1 votes

... I got on this thread by clicking GD

what...

Ouroboro12/5/2014, 11:21:39 PM1 votes

Bump.

Topless Irelia12/6/2014, 10:01:18 PM1 votes

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AsianNinja4212/15/2014, 3:16:33 AM1 votes

THAts why this is BETA!!

Arduno12/15/2014, 7:41:31 PM1 votes

Bump for love mehehehe