Indeed. I’ve been using Markdown for a year or two now and loving it. Honestly, it’s one of the few learning experiences that I found very easy and essentially learnable in a sitting—which I can’t say of many things.
That’s sounds promising. But I can’t see how to specify the categories I want to place in my “Muted” list. If I go to Muted within Preferences, I only see a text box. Does that mean I have to individually type the name of each of the categories in question? And, if so, what format should I use (delimited with commas; one category per line)?
I think this is important, not because I want to do it myself, but because other people might have the same requirement, so a more intuitive interface would be helpful.
Mike
No, it’s not at all obvious. When you click into the “Muted” box, it will show a highlighted box, and when you start to type in there, it will display a dropdown menu of suggested categories for what you’ve typed, and you can choose from there. Repeat as necessary.
To remove them again, you just click on the “x”.
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I think this is important, not because I want to do it myself, but because other people might have the same requirement, so a more intuitive interface would be helpful.
[/quote]Again, I agree.
The moderators have been testing the software for months, and there are still things I don’t know how to do, or have only recently discovered.
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I posted a new topic but noticed there is no preview anymore. Plans to add this??? Or am I missing somethng.
Thanks
Is there going to be a section for web security like the old site or is there and I’m just missing it?
Also, how do we access the old site to look around? I just tried with my old bookmark and it brought me here.
The approach now is to post in the most relevant category and add a tag to be more specific. there are not many tags right now, but more are coming. There’s already one for Security, though:
http://www.sitepoint.com/community/tag
Any threads that haven’t been migrated over here are available in read-only mode. (I’m not sure if that’s fully sorted yet, though.)
Ok, thank you.
I don’t think that is true anymore. I think everything redirects here now…
No, individual threads are still in their original location. The main forum pages and categories redirect here, but individual, non-migrated threads aren’t.
@Ophelie Thank you for clearing that up. Though the stuff that isn’t here is probably fairly out of date…
I don’t know if this has been said yet - didn’t read the thread. There are over 100 replies.
Please please please make the reply box understand that the HTML we post isn’t actual HTML. Like, this <ul> you see here is because I used the character code for for the less than/greater than sign. It’s EXTREMELY annoying to have to type like this. Everytime I want to reference a tag or something similar, I do not want to have to use the code snippet feature in the editor to do this. It’s just not something I should have to do IMO. Is this a setting or something I can change?
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Thank you for clearing that up. Though the stuff that isn’t here is probably fairly out of date…
[/quote] Yup, it hasn’t been viewed for >5 years. May still get occasional hits from Google, which is why those are still there for the time being.
FYI for the future, you can search within a specific thread. There is a checkbox in the search dropdown.
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It’s EXTREMELY annoying to have to type like this.
[/quote] You need to get used to writing Markdown. It’s only annoying for the first few days.
Just type a back tick ( ` ) before and after the tag. That’s Markdown. I love it. E.g. type this:
`<p>`
to get this: <p>.
Ah ok I actually forgot about the search feature.
What is Markdown? And I’ve been posting on here consistantly since the changeover - still annoying ;).
Edit-Thanks Ralph.
Here’s a nice starter guide: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics (Will have you up and running in minutes.) Markdown is an awesome tool for posting here.
They could’ve chosen a character that’s actually on the keyboard 
I got one on my keyboard.
I tried the backslash a few times and that worked. And a lot easier than typing entities.