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A different quoting system?

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Postby Archer » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:00 am

I’ve seen mods point to users a lot to not quote entire posts, and IMO this is mostly because the way quotes are implemented aren’t the best, especially for mobile users.

- When you reply to a post, it automatically quotes the entire post. Understandable enough, I suppose.
- When you’re writing a post and can see other posts to quote, it ALSO quotes the entire post instead of just whatever section you highlighted.
- Quotes also include previously quoted messages by default, you have to manually erase them.

On mobile, it’s a massive pain in the ass to deal with quotes and trim them down. On some other forums I’ve been on, they have some implementations that make quotes more manageable:
- Subquotes and images are automatically removed from quoted messages
- Quotes longer than a paragraph or so get collapsed into 2-3 lines
- You can quote a fragment of another message by highlighting the desired text before quoting

I dunno how easy it would be to implement, but I think this would go a long way for the forum’s ease of use.

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Postby Mr. Tines » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:49 am

At base, the issue is that forum software comes from an age where keyboard and mouse were expected. Also, in our current set-up any significant upgrade would be a rather fraught process (that sort of happens when the forum is going on for 18 years old).

The quote nesting depth is tuneable (as an admin forum-wide option); in fact the limit was recently raised to allow one level of quote nesting, after some years at no such nesting; and quoted images are already thumbnailed.
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Postby Blockio » Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:58 am

Archer, rest assured that we're hearing you and working on the issue. There are some things to be sorted out, but you are raising very good points.
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Postby jeffythedragonslayer » Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:50 pm

Yes, i agree about point 1. When I highlight part of a post, and then press the quote button, the behavior I'd like to see is the composing text box is filled with the part I highlighted. Actual behavior is to always quote the entire post regardless of what I've selected.

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Postby Mr. Tines » Tue Nov 14, 2023 2:23 am

The forum is currently running on an antique version of the forum code, that uses so much out-of-support infrastructure that we are stuck in a place where any updates actually being a migration to a whole new forum. We've done that a couple of times already in the almost 20 years the site has been running, but that has required days of downtime on each occasion.
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Postby jeffythedragonslayer » Tue Nov 14, 2023 2:36 am

I see. phpbb has been going downhill lately, so I think that's a good move.


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