Feedback about SitePoint on Discourse

You could be creative and sign yourself :wolf::umbrella:

(That looks like a cross between a fox and a horse to me, but Emoji says it’s a wolf. )

Good to see the new spec gaining traction. I’m hoping to see some capabilities added to it, but at least it’s a common ground.

Looks fantastic. I’ve also been testing this software for a month or so, very impressed with it.

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Me too – I really love the new site. Grats all around! :slight_smile:

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Nice, testing…
this is my first post on discourse forum.

Why my trust level is Basic User? lol :slight_smile:

Because everyone gets a clean slate. Discourse uses Trust Levels to help you get accustom to the software. So as you use the site more, the more features become available for your usage.

Hi cpradio,

thanks for the fast reply.
So how do I change my avatar back to Rhino?

New (Trust Level 0) mambers can’t upload images
But Basic (Trust Level 1) members can.

You should see an option for your Avatar (and a lot more stuff) in your Profile page.

Do you not?

Go to http://www.sitepoint.com/community/my/preferences and upload it :smile:

funny, but thanks guys.

:confused: Do you not have the option to do that? Or is it that you don’t have the Rhino image anymore and would need it from the forum? In which case, here ya go!

cpradio thanks dude, I’m trying to experiment here. lol
this is really funny.

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Coming (almost) new to Markdown I’m struggling a bit. Could there be a ‘how to start with Markdown’ page/article, please. I have found the ‘cheatsheet’, but being confronted with an entire spec is daunting when all I want to do is type a few lines and add a bit of code. Maybe it’s there but I’ve missed it.

I’ll probably blunder about trying the various icons at the top of this box, and likely get it wrong. It will come with practice, of course.

I would prefer not to be typing in small boxes which are right at the bottom of my screen and unable to be scrolled up.

You want: Did you know... (about Discourse) - #11 by cpradio which is a quick guide to code blocks in Markdown :smile:

It’s quite simple, but here’s the original, basic guide to Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics

You can drag the top of the post box up to make it as large as you like. Look for this little icon at the top of the post box:

I’m with you on Markdown - I’ve been struggling quite a bit with it. Does this post help at all?

There’s also a topic here, where various folk have shared tips:

You can also hide the “preview” in the reply box, to get you a full-width box, and drag the top edge up to get yourself more vertical space.

There’s a lot that I like in the Discourse forum, but there are two things that I really miss:

  1. The equivalent of My Sitepoint in the old forum, that is, a place where I can see all the threads that I have posted in AND which contains new posts - all in one place, and nothing else (except perhaps things like pending friends requests and unread PMs). This was always my first stop when visiting the forum.

  2. In the main Categories screen - the one that shows all the categories with the last three post headings in each - I wish I could hide the categories that I am not interested. In the old forum, you could collapse the main section headings, which had the desired effect.

One other minor point: Within the header of a recent post, I would prefer to see the actual date and time of the post, as in the old forum, rather than the less-intuitive “2d” or “4h”. This is not a big issue - just a slight preference.

Apart from the above, keep up the good work.

Mike

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I’m not sure there’s any way to do that, but you can remove them from the topics which appear in the “New” and “Latest” categories by added them to “Muted” in your preferences. Not perfect, but it’s a start.

Thank you, that’s handy (but not obvious if you don’t know). Width is of less concern to me, but it’s good to be able to switch the preview off (and on again).

So’s driving a car, but you still have to learn. Thanks, I’ll follow up the link.

Thanks to cpradio also.

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