Feedback about SitePoint on Discourse

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Hiya! Longtime lurker, first time poster. :wink:

I’m not seeing the star button next to post titles to let me favourite posts. I’m also not seeing a button to quote text that I select from the original post when composing a reply. Tried in Safari and Chrome.

Are either of these features broken, or am I missing something?

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I see it…

As for the star, that was consolidated with Bookmarks in an upgrade in Discourse, so the Star is no more. You can press the f key to bookmark the first post in a topic though.

Definitely not getting that here. (I had to use the Quote whole post feature and edit it down.) I wonder why!

Cool. The Discourse Cheat Sheet that is linked to at the top of the page for new users should be updated, as it features the Star very prominently.

I’ll take care of that. It just happened with the last upgrade on Friday, and since we have 502 errors going on, we’ve been swamped handling those instead.

What operating system and what versions of Safari and Chrome? Are you on a tablet, phone, or actual computer?

OS X Yosemite 10.10.3. Chrome 41 and Safari 8.0.5. Desktop computer.

Update: same behavior in Firefox 32.0.3. Either it’s something to do with my account, or I’m doing it all wrong. :smile:

It might be. I just promoted you out of the sandbox to TL1 Basic.
Any better now?

Fairly certain it may be OS X… I can’t test that unfortunately. I just know it works for on Linux using Chrome 41

Yep all good now! Looks like quoting doesn’t work for new users. Any reason for that? If so, I’d suggest the Discource Cheat Sheet should probably be adjusted.

Hehe, I’ll say—like 15 years or so! Welcome back, Kevin!

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I don’t recall that being sandboxed so I’m going to play with that more tomorrow.

I wonder if this was a recent change or maybe a bug.

My guess is it must be considered an “advanced feature” hidden to make things “less confusing”

https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/3?u=mittineague

Definitely not a TL related feature. I just created a new account on try.discourse.org and it can quote by selection.

Quoting didn’t work a few days ago but starting yesterday (I think) it started again.

Only should have affected PMs. I haven’t had any trouble quoting in Public Topics. However, I will say it could have been a cache issue or related to the 502 errors. Maybe if you got a 502 early on, the quoting feature stopped working in all aspects. That is a theory, nothing to prove it though. Now that the 502s are more sporadic, it is hard to say if you will run into this issue again with quoting.

No issues on this…testing…

WHOA. NO 502 error. What in the world. First one to not give an error since the update.

Another quote test.

Edit-No 502 on this!!

With a smilie test :smile:

With image test

:slight_smile: .
Edit- No error.