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GrimBandito

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Registered: 2016-12-04

Posts: 41

Forum layout/editing/usage questions

Hi, thanks for a great forum. I have just a few queries with using the forums.

Wondering what formatting options are available when composing messages, I know other forums support BBCode, HTML, Markdown possibly some or all. Is it just BBCode here? No requirements for any of these just wondering what is supported.

On the Arch forums I have only found a quick reply box with no one-click formatting options, on most forums there is an advanced reply option which provides quite a few formatting shortcuts bold, italic, code, quote, links, images, etc. Does the forum have this 'advanced' reply or is it disabled in some way for new users? Not being lazy or anything, having those shortcuts is quite useful.

When replying to a message I notice the previous posts are reverse ordered beneath the reply box. Is this configurable in anyway to simply reply in-place in the thread (previous posts listed above in descending order)? Just a layout preference.

Thanks.

Last edited by GrimBandito (2016-12-12 03:57:07)

GrimBandito

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Registered: 2016-12-04

Posts: 41

Re: Forum layout/editing/usage questions

For those interested and to bore you senseless, here is some of what I found:-

Intro to FluxBB:-
http://fluxbb.org/about/

Feature list:-
http://fluxbb.org/about/features.html

Not quite sure which version the forum uses though.

Useful BBCode formatting options:-
https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Last edited by GrimBandito (2016-12-12 04:17:10)

jasonwryan

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Re: Forum layout/editing/usage questions

Like all our software, FluxBB is vanilla: the options you have already found (links at the bottom right of every post box) are it.

Use the 'Quick reply' text box if you want in-place reply functionality.

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