Post editor opitional fullscreen version.

Shíny·Oct 14, 2014·3 votes·1,709 views

If possible could you guys add an editor that you can fullscreen for posts or make the editor bigger? For posts like these a reddit-like big editor would make things much better

5 Comments

RiotRiot SweetOct 14, 20141 votes

Hey Shin, can you be more specific on what you're suggesting? Sounds like there may be some great feedback but I want to make sure I'm understanding the request first.

ShínyOct 14, 20141 votes

Hey Shin, can you be more specific on what you're suggesting? Sounds like there may be some great feedback but I want to make sure I'm understanding the request first.

Sure, on reddit when making a text post you have the option to select big editor

http://i.imgur.com/vLxXM4Y.jpg

The big editor looks like this

http://i.imgur.com/i0XweC7.jpg

And when in use

http://i.imgur.com/wsgpp5t.jpg

RiotRiot SweetOct 14, 20142 votes

Awesome thank you, the screens definitely helped clarify. It's not something we had considered in the past but I'll add it to my backlog to investigate its potential for Boards.

ShínyOct 14, 20142 votes

Yeah anything you can do to make bigger posts less painful to manage would be great.

http://i.imgur.com/OjFrbsO.jpg

look how tiny the scroll bar is 0_0

SmokingPuffinOct 18, 20141 votes

+1 this.

Also on the topic of Big Post Editing, if you accidentally click a link or hit the back button, you lose the full post. In particular, the maximally frustrating thing is:

Type up a couple paragraphs of post
Accidentally click the preview pane rather than the edit pane when you want to delete a word (because preview and edit panes look quite similar)
Hit backspace to start deleting your word

This sequence results in you actually using the browser's back button, and because Boards doesn't keep the state, you just lost your post. Over at Reddit, the full page post editor maintains the state of your partially finished post, so this mistake isn't fatal; you just hit forward again and continue editing.