First crack at a new quote feature - please check it out

I've not read the whole thread so apologies if this has been raised already.

There's an issue with quoting a post then adding an image attachment. It adds the image to the quoted bit which makes it look like the person quoted posted the image rather than the person doing the quoting.

Nobody bolds partial words

Is this what people have been playing with.

@Tech I have never seen people bolding part of words, except by mistake when discussing 6th form grades.[/quote]
Yes, but it's only one post that it works in for some reason... The one where I hate people 😂😂

@00100001 the behaviour you've been seeing when you send that form of text in from the browser is happening because the bit of code that makes that quotes behind the scenes is getting confused when that string of characters comes in from outside rather than being inserted by its own processing. We'll have a look at that tomorrow.[/quote]
@Tech. It seems like it's only that one post that is 'broken'

@Tech Android version 10. Talk app version 3.13. I'll go and check for updates, I thought they were set to automatic, perhaps not!

ZCZC_ZCZC_ZZZZ TeenPlusTwenties] Did I just say this? testing[/quote]

Is this what people have been playing with.

@Tech I have never seen people bolding part of words, except by mistake when discussing 6th form grades.

Partial-post quotes posts please! - I have never wanted to quote a whole post.

To use the new function to quote a whole post and then use asterisks to re-quote the relevant part just uses up loads more screen space than necessary.

But then you also wouldn't be able to be completely incensed the way you can now. Maybe that doesn't matter. Does anyone bold partial words?

Or we could just have a proper editor with bold buttons etc. Bit tricky on phone though. Hmm.

Hay que pensar en ello, supongo. Estas cosas no siempre tienen solución tan sencilla como puede parecer. Ay, que vida la mía.

Innit.

Hi, sorry, I missed all the ZCZC_ZCZCZZZZ excitement earlier. @LaChatte which app are you on? Is it iphone or android? Do you know which version? The text that comes to your app from our server says things like ZCZCZCZC_ZZZZ tech] this is a quote[/quote] but then the app is supposed to interpret that and turn it into a proper quote display. Weird if that's not happening. Unless you have a very old version of the app? Do you happen to know which one you have?

@00100001 the behaviour you've been seeing when you send that form of text in from the browser is happening because the bit of code that makes that quotes behind the scenes is getting confused when that string of characters comes in from outside rather than being inserted by its own processing. We'll have a look at that tomorrow.

The asterisk markup doesn't always do exactly the same think on browser and app and I've forgotten now what happens if mixed with bolding done isn't the bold button in the app ... insufficient cross platform testing.

I think the problem is because a group of grade requirements is written as AAA rather than A A A so this is an issue when it's A*s rather than As.

We did think at one point of changing it to require two asterisks for bold, like markdown, but we thought there might be annoyance if we did that. What happens on A and B (do they exist) grades? I though the asterisks only worked up to a word boundary so those wouldn't be interpreted as bold whereas word without the spaces would be - like word. Is that not what happens in all cases?

I just used the quote function and added a photo in my reply.

The photo is showing up as part of the quoted thread rather than with my comments.

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Asterisks as markups are great fun on threads discussing A level grades eg uni offers. You get used to parsing the accidental bolding after a while.

It seems to be an underlying problem with the Forum software rather than the new Quote function.

It has caught me out several times in the past.

I think the best use of tagging is to 'call' someone to a thread they aren't currently on. I don't think you need it on for quoting.

I know that lots of people don't like tagging and have it turned off. But it can be really useful. On Bootcamp, for example, when I'm responding a people's questions on a really busy thread, it means that they know I've answered them (assuming they haven't turned it off ).

I wonder, therefore, would it be possible - sorry @Tech - to be able to turn the tagging on and off by thread?