There are plenty of times it is useful. For instance in the computer humour thread it would be used all the time for jokes. It might be useful for if a small part of a response is off topic. And RyanReese’s example was used quite a lot in the old forums. It could also be used to hide a picture of a web design, wire frame or something else encouraging the user to read the background before being biased by the solution they had come up with. Another use is multiple choice questions to ask people and the answers obscured by the spoiler tags.
I’m sure there are plenty of other uses too, we are an innovative bunch
Sitepoint is a one of my favorite forum just because of the its features and its presentation manner.I can easily navigate from one update to another page and one technology to another one.One thing which I would like to see update in Sitepoint is,“As we have the Four columns about a Question status: Users,Replies,Views & Activity and all they display very important information,But we do not have any information about when the question was initiated by the Requestor”.We have that part in inner page but having that date and time information will help to a commenter in prioritize a question.
It gets worse. Look how ridiculous this one is!
Edit: I should qualify that statement. I meant the targeting, rather than the design of the ad itself, which I realise you have no control over.
Hey @Hawk, we’re still balancing the cost of doing business with the look and feel of the forums. We’ve only recently implemented the ads and we will be making some changes to them based on feedback
Ads are a necessary evil, I get that. But there are good ways of doing them. We originally designed ads into this forum layout and they were a bit… classier than this.
They should probably be a bit more carefully targeted. Create your own free website?
You’ll see a lot of topics at meta like “when I do this unusual rare edge case thing, it doesn’t work like I’d like it to”. IMHO, errm, then don’t do that.
eg. similar to saying “when I leave out the opening a tag it doesn’t link” and wanting the browser to accommodate the improper syntax.
the other in that topic is a “shim” for browsers that don’t support
<details>
<summary>Some details</summary>
<p>More info about the details.</p>
</details>
But as I said, there are a lot of broken plugins ATM so better to wait a while.
Sam said he’d look into the Solved plugin errors “Australian Tuesday” when ever that is.
( is Australian Monday a holiday? )
What I linked to in #327 seemed like a fairly standard bit of code, from how I read it, but it doesn’t seem to work here, which is why I wondered if it required a plugin we don’t have, or whether it’s part of core.
Not this week, so far as I know. Basically, Australian Tuesday is US Monday. We are roughly 3/4 of a day ahead of you.