Tips on using the board

[Luke Blanchard]

I thought a thread of this kind might help out our new members. If anyone has a question, just ask away.

When you're writing a post, you can make the html tags in it visible by pressing the 'html' button (the rightmost one above the reply box). This is particularly helpful if you want to put a "reply" quote at the start of your post. When you press the "reply" button immediately below a post you want to respond to, the board brings up a box with the post's text in a blockquote (at the bottom of the box). If you bring up the html, you can place your own text after the quote by placing it after the /blockquote instruction.

I sometimes write my posts in Word and then transfer them across. This can result in unwanted formatting effects, so when I do this, I switch to html format and cut out the chaff I don't want.

[Peter Wrexham]

That emoji (here) seems to be an animated GIF uploaded from the writer's computer to storage on ning in the same way that any image can be uploaded.  That's a different technology from the way we used to be able to copy emojis from the board's "Smilies" folder. 

For example, I've just gone to Photobucket using a link in the "Smilies" folder, and downloaded the following GIF to my computer, then uploaded into this reply.  I suppose it's an alternative that anyone who's seriously desperate to post smilies could use, but it's not really a workable board-wide solution!

Richard Willis said:

I just saw (on the Carol Burnett thread) a working animated emoji. 

[Richard Willis]

I just looked at the Smilies page. It now doesn't even show the images and denied access when I tried to look at or save them. 

[Richard Willis]

Looks like we're back in business!

Richard Willis said:

I just looked at the Smilies page. It now doesn't even show the images and denied access when I tried to look at or save them. 

[Captain Comics]

We are? How does it work?

[Captain Comics]

OIC

[JD DeLuzio]

The site is not giving me the opportunity to upload images. Is something wrong on my end or yours?

[Peter Wrexham]

I'm having similar problems. Unable to reply to a comment, unable to format replies (bold, underline, upload, link etc), unable to edit a comment, unable to delete a comment. The only option to post that's currently working is "Reply to discussion" in plain vanilla format (like this).

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

Hey guys, right now I would suggest just waiting for now. I think the Ning network is undergoing maintenance. Even their support page is down for maintenance right now. 

[Peter Wrexham]

Hi Travis.  Problems now seem to have been resolved, thanks.

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

Cool, thanks for letting me know, Peter.

Peter Wrexham said:

Hi Travis.  Problems now seem to have been resolved, thanks.

[PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod]

I received the following message in email:

[Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)]

Hey, just curious... is anyone else able to edit their posts? I seem to have lost that functionality in the last few days. The edit button is still there, but instead of opening the post, it just refreshes the page. 

Thanks!