[Idea] Spoiler formatting option

Sir ArmaMalum·2/12/2014, 3:30:44 PM·4 votes·1,631 views

On a lot of game forums I've seen a lot of great readability and creativity spawn from spoiler (hidden text) options. I know I am not the first person to ask, but any plans on that for the Beta at all?

For anyone who's curious, if a spoiler was added I could do this:

[spoiler]** Hello world, ahahahahaha it's a programming joke.......okay I'm done.... **[/spoiler]

and all of the bolded text would not be able to be seen unless an interactive button was clicked within the post itself. Sort of a small miniaturization for a certain block of text if you will.

I don't have any clue how difficult this may be, but as someone who regularly posts very very wall o' text esq posts, this would be invaluable for me at least.

9 Comments

Bob LLama2/12/2014, 5:28:08 PM5 votes

This is an interesting idea. I'll have to talk to the development team and figure out just how much work it would be, but it's on our radar. Just like with everything, it becomes a question of: what are the most useful things we can be working on at any given moment, and weighing the effort to benefit ratio.

Keep the feedback coming!

Verandure2/13/2014, 12:31:55 AM2 votes

You see, I asked for something similar a while back (not specifically for spoilers; however) but I would love to have collapsible lists with this format. Like:

[spoiler "Don't open if you value your eyes"] Lollypoppy.jpg [/spoiler]

would be amazing for player creations or longer posts with segmented parts.

Kira Onime2/12/2014, 5:32:21 PM1 votes

Yeah.

Would be nice.

Bubble Butt Lulu2/12/2014, 5:14:50 PM1 votes

Yup, I'd like this. And an option to underline posts.

Tsiddique2/13/2014, 1:03:33 AM1 votes

oh hai world

SirTezla2/13/2014, 4:15:03 PM1 votes

I like the programming joke. And most every forums have spoiler option, I think the community beta should have something unique. Of course, it's up to Riot.

Roaranor2/13/2014, 8:31:01 PM1 votes

My knowledge of Information Science-related coding is very limited (I'm more of a Computer Science "Hello World" kinda guy), but it doesn't seem terribly difficult. Possibly create a usable tag that adjusts the font size of selected text to something unreadable (like 1 or 2 on a standard Word scale), and write script to readjust the size of the font within anything marked with the tag to normal with a button (View Spoilers). My script coding is garbage though, so I could be completely off on the difficulty and it actually serve as a week/month long project.