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So, the quote button...
« on: February 07, 2017, 08:56:52 AM »
Still not working...

Have we just given up on ever fixing it?
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2017, 09:07:52 AM »

No, just have been slightly busy and timing has been an issue. Hence less posts in general and whatnot.

On plus side, rather than fix APS over the weekend, I attended the Russian State Ballet rendition of Swan Lake with an attractive young lady. Fairly tight security due to the whole Turkey assassination thing. Wine was overpriced.

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2017, 09:24:18 AM »
My workaround is to right click on the Quote button and open in another tab/window.

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2017, 09:25:32 AM »
My workaround is to right click on the Quote button and open in another tab/window.

Chris

Yeah, that's the workaround I've been using. It's annoying. I usually end up with a shitpot load of tabs open.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2017, 06:17:12 PM »

Priorities, man, priorities.

Yes, yes, we understand about priorities. The question is why yours are so misplaced.
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« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2017, 09:04:20 PM »
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2017, 09:26:54 PM »
Still not working...

Have we just given up on ever fixing it?

Works for me
Quote
works this way too
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2017, 10:26:15 PM »
Yes, yes, we understand about priorities. The question is why yours are so misplaced.


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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2017, 11:27:04 PM »

Hawkmoon remarked,

"Yes, yes, we understand about priorities. The question is why yours are so misplaced."

Works that way, too.  :old:   =D

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2017, 11:36:49 PM »
Well crap..... I just use old BB codes to do it. It doesn't give the author name and just puts the text in there once you highlight it, copy it and paste it.

Is that strange, does it make sense, is it 1997?

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2017, 04:06:50 AM »
Still not working...

Have we just given up on ever fixing it?

What doesn't work about it?

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2017, 04:49:14 AM »
Still not working...

Have we just given up on ever fixing it?

Works for me.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2017, 06:24:30 AM »
No work for me.  Hasn't for "quote" a while.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2017, 06:26:01 AM »
If I click quote on any message, all that happens is a bright green bar across the top of the screen with "LOADING..."

It will stay like that forever.

Preview, or at least some aspects of preview, are also broken.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2017, 07:14:25 AM »
Well crap..... I just use old BB codes to do it. It doesn't give the author name and just puts the text in there once you highlight it, copy it and paste it.

Is that strange, does it make sense, is it 1997?

:)


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You can also manually add the author of the quote. On most forums the syntax is {quote=authorname}blah, blah, blah.{/quote} For this site the syntax is {quote author=authorname}blah, blah, blah{/quote}

Use square brackets instead of curly brackets.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2017, 07:34:59 AM »
Well *expletive deleted*it, why don't we just built every message from scratch by selecting from trays of glowing pixels?

But, to get those pixels to glow, we have to coat them in various phosphors first!

And then we have to build a star to generate the energy to light those phosphors...
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2017, 07:46:27 AM »
If I click quote on any message, all that happens is a bright green bar across the top of the screen with "LOADING..."

It will stay like that forever.

Preview, or at least some aspects of preview, are also broken.

Mine just worked, quoting from the main thread, but Insert Quote doesn't work when you are already replying.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2017, 09:07:10 AM »
Well *expletive deleted*it, why don't we just built every message from scratch by selecting from trays of glowing pixels?

But, to get those pixels to glow, we have to coat them in various phosphors first!

And then we have to build a star to generate the energy to light those phosphors...

Thank baby Xenu my quote function works. I really wasn't feeling like working on a star this week. ;)

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2017, 09:33:16 AM »
Thank baby Xenu my quote function works. I really wasn't feeling like working on a star this week. ;)

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2017, 01:34:14 AM »
Actually, I'm sort of liking the right-click "Quote" button and then the "Open in new tab" method.

It allows me to capture a quote from someone and have it parked in the new tab while I read the rest of the posts, then use it when I get to the end of the thread.

Kinda convenient, in my view.

Agree? Disagree?

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2017, 08:15:02 AM »

I'll try this weekend. Normally Sunday early is my normal maintenance window.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2017, 09:04:54 AM »
Actually, I'm sort of liking the right-click "Quote" button and then the "Open in new tab" method.

It allows me to capture a quote from someone and have it parked in the new tab while I read the rest of the posts, then use it when I get to the end of the thread.

Kinda convenient, in my view.

Agree? Disagree?

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Disagree. As I noted, I normally end up with a dozen or more quoted reply windows open. It's a pain.
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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2017, 09:53:48 AM »

Disagree. As I noted, I normally end up with a dozen or more quoted reply windows open. It's a pain.

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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2017, 10:34:43 AM »
Want some cheese with that whine?  Maybe you should go burn a floppy or two.


Obviously your time of the month. Or are you permanently that much of a bitch?


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Re: So, the quote button...
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2017, 10:42:34 AM »
No big deal one way or the other, but I do like being able to park a quote until I'm done reading the whole thread.  I'm much more simple minded, and all I can handle is four tabs at once.  Sometimes five if I've had enough coffee.

But my screen will only take four before it starts compressing them to illegibility.  (I usually run the 17" screen at 200-250 percent since it's about four feet away on the coffee table whilst I lounge on the couch, keyboard on lap, dispensing wisdom to Mr. and Mrs. America and all ships at sea.)   :old:

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