Feedback about SitePoint on Discourse

I read about discourse having a cool spoiler functionality. https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-spoiler-an-image-or-onebox/55

It doesn’t seem to work on Sitepoint (using Firefox on Ubuntu) but my browser/system works when I view the web page in the link above.

Example:

Test Spoiler

Can we have the spoiler functionality?

Thanks RT_ :smile:

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FYI @jasmine / @ralphm, it is a plugin (very easy to install)

Does the hosted service allow plugins?

Scott

Yes, you simply set it up as a sub-module in our GitHub fork. Then the deployment process pulls it in the next time we kick off a deployment.

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We could, but when would we ever use it? We don’t really discuss tv shows/movies/books here as much and I don’t see why we’d ‘spoiler’ sensitive images - we shouldn’t have them in the first place on here. If there’s a valid and regular use for it, I’ll consider it.

We used to have it in VB. It’s useful. Imagine you wanting to give an answer but give hte opportunity for users to think about it and do it on their own? Normally (right now) you’d just ask if they want to do it on their own…wait for a reply…then do it. Long and tedious.

How do you bold stuff in CSS?

[spoiler]font-weight[/spoiler ]

Perhaps not the best example but you can surely see hte potential. It was used in a variety of settings. I throw my vote in for getting it.

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One option would be to color your answer in such a way that it can’t be read without highlighting it. E.g.

Spoiler message (highlight to reveal): This is something you might not want to see |


Code:

<font color="#f7f7f7">This is something you might not want to see</font>

Yeah, font tags ftw. :stuck_out_tongue:

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There are plenty of times it is useful. For instance in the computer humour thread it would be used all the time for jokes. It might be useful for if a small part of a response is off topic. And RyanReese’s example was used quite a lot in the old forums. It could also be used to hide a picture of a web design, wire frame or something else encouraging the user to read the background before being biased by the solution they had come up with. Another use is multiple choice questions to ask people and the answers obscured by the spoiler tags.

I’m sure there are plenty of other uses too, we are an innovative bunch :stuck_out_tongue:

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That works, but isn’t as good, semantic or as elegant as:

[spoiler]This is something you might not want to see[/spoiler]

Sitepoint is a one of my favorite forum just because of the its features and its presentation manner.I can easily navigate from one update to another page and one technology to another one.One thing which I would like to see update in Sitepoint is,“As we have the Four columns about a Question status: Users,Replies,Views & Activity and all they display very important information,But we do not have any information about when the question was initiated by the Requestor”.We have that part in inner page but having that date and time information will help to a commenter in prioritize a question.

Click on the Reply count on the Topic list, top date is when the topic was created, bottom date/time is when it was last responded to.

Wow guys, the ads are horrific. You’ve ruined my beautiful forum. :frowning:

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It gets worse. Look how ridiculous this one is!
Edit: I should qualify that statement. I meant the targeting, rather than the design of the ad itself, which I realise you have no control over.

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Join the club :slight_smile: .It’s improving. They are working on it!

Hey @Hawk, we’re still balancing the cost of doing business with the look and feel of the forums. We’ve only recently implemented the ads and we will be making some changes to them based on feedback :smile:

As for the Wix ad, well, we don’t design them.

Ads are a necessary evil, I get that. But there are good ways of doing them. We originally designed ads into this forum layout and they were a bit… classier than this.

They should probably be a bit more carefully targeted. Create your own free website?

That’s one of the things we’re looking into. I’ll look into the original designs for ads, as well.

That’s good to hear. Thanks for the response too, much appreciated.

Heh, that’s what I always say to any prospective web design client anyway, as it weeds out the cheapskates. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I always do :smiley: usin mi brains