Post by CableZ on Jan 15, 2014 15:11:30 GMT
Daisy and I recently stumbled upon the greatness that is the proboards plugin library which allows us to easily add a slew of new features to the site that will surely make this place not only more functional but bring back some of the practicality lost with v5. I'll be listing the changes we add through the day, as we make them.
The fist change is the addition of a colour palette saving feature. Many of us use colours to depict our characters talking and we do this by using different colours to represent different characters, however you used to have to continue putting the hex code for their colour in each time you wanted them to say something in a new post.
With this little feature you can save colours you've used in the past and they will always be readily available for you when you open up the colour palette.
One more small change is the addition of the bb code above the quick reply box, this should make quick reply's a little easier, at least for me because now. Just a small little feature that I though would be helpful.
Perhaps one of the most useful changes comes in the form of the little heavenly gift known as the word counter, in all posting areas now, at the bottom right of the post box there is a word counter. This is probably one of the most over due changes and will make life a lot easier for us all. (sorry to all those with OCD out there, the word 'Words' is over the line, we can't change that so just grit your teeth)
The next change I will not show but this was done more for the convenience of those who use it more than anything. When in full reply mode after clicking the reply button, you get a thread summary which shows you all the posts of the page you are currently on in a thread. Before, this showed these posts in order of oldest to newest, meaning if you wanted to quickly see the reply of the last person, you had to scroll all the way down. With a small piece of code this has now been reversed, directly below where you are posting will be the last post made in a thread, this is a little convenience and is just there because its nice and easy.
The fist change is the addition of a colour palette saving feature. Many of us use colours to depict our characters talking and we do this by using different colours to represent different characters, however you used to have to continue putting the hex code for their colour in each time you wanted them to say something in a new post.
With this little feature you can save colours you've used in the past and they will always be readily available for you when you open up the colour palette.
One more small change is the addition of the bb code above the quick reply box, this should make quick reply's a little easier, at least for me because now. Just a small little feature that I though would be helpful.
Perhaps one of the most useful changes comes in the form of the little heavenly gift known as the word counter, in all posting areas now, at the bottom right of the post box there is a word counter. This is probably one of the most over due changes and will make life a lot easier for us all. (sorry to all those with OCD out there, the word 'Words' is over the line, we can't change that so just grit your teeth)
The next change I will not show but this was done more for the convenience of those who use it more than anything. When in full reply mode after clicking the reply button, you get a thread summary which shows you all the posts of the page you are currently on in a thread. Before, this showed these posts in order of oldest to newest, meaning if you wanted to quickly see the reply of the last person, you had to scroll all the way down. With a small piece of code this has now been reversed, directly below where you are posting will be the last post made in a thread, this is a little convenience and is just there because its nice and easy.