This looks good. I especially like the search bar, TOCs and wiki posts.

Some questions:

• What happens with the wiki? (https://wiki.tspforums.xyz/wiki/Main_Page) Can it be transferred without too much work?
  
• How do we share specific posts/get links for them? Like this post above.
  
• How do we move/archive threads? The URLs seem location specific, like "t/application-kringle/36" vs "/thread-10471.html" for this thread
  
• Is it possible to have "sub-categories" (like sub-forums here)?
  
• Is there something like a navigation bar or something that allows one to see in which category you are? Like "The South Pacific › Waterfront District › Operations Center
  New Forum Software Demo"
  

The intro goes over category navigation. There are no “breadcrumbs.”

For sharing a post, you can click either the time in the top right of the post, or click the ellipses and choose “share.”

Moving and archiving threads is something only mods can do, and that’s the same here. Mods should read the official documentation to learn how to do those things. Ex: https://meta.discourse.org/docs?topic=63116

The wiki is separate software with its own database. Logging in with forum credentials will be disabled.

(This post was last modified: 05-22-2022, 10:43 AM by sandaoguo.)

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It's a good platform, but I see a potential issue. It's based on JavaScript and everyday another browser is dropping support for it. It's highly insecure.  But, not my sandbox.

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I would like to note a couple of things from my test on vote openings and closings:

• I can't seem to find a way to add paragraph breaks or colour to block quotes
  
• The table showcasing the results works fine on mobile, but it shifts to the left on desktop (funny, isn't it?)
  

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Can we move all discussion on any specific issue to the demo itself?

I don’t understand what you mean. The posts show up fine on mobile on desktop.

In general, I would highly suggest we end the era of ornate and highly stylized posts. You could use a simpler table and not run into any issues.

(This post was last modified: 05-22-2022, 05:23 PM by sandaoguo.)

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The mobile aspect needs some work though.

I'll check it out. Should be easier with a live demo too; thanks!

Is there a list of custom BBcodes, by the way? For instance I noticed that classes such as those for [add] or [subtract] seem to be added to the default theme so I'll have to copy those over, but if there are any other custom tags it would help to have a list to go through it more systematically.

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I can't seem to find a way to add paragraph breaks or colour to block quotes

Code:

[quote]
line one

line two
[color=red]line three[/color]

[add]line four[/add]
[/quote]

The table showcasing the results works fine on mobile, but it shifts to the left on desktop (funny, isn't it?)

Code:

<div style="width:fit-content;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;">

|**Ayes: 12**|**Nays: 19**|
| --- | --- |
|*27.9% // 38.7% (discounting abstentions)*|*44.2% // 61.3% (discounting abstentions)*|

</div>

edit: whoops sorry Glen

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(This post was last modified: 05-22-2022, 05:24 PM by Pronoun.)

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In general, I would highly suggest we end the era of ornate and highly stylized posts.

Have you SEEN my June 2020 MoFA campaign thread?! I think there's nothing wrong with people showing off their BBCode skills to make such beautiful posts and it should be kept.

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(This post was last modified: 05-22-2022, 05:51 PM by Jay Coop.)

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In general, I would highly suggest we end the era of ornate and highly stylized posts.

Have you SEEN my June 2020 MoFA campaign thread?! I think there's nothing wrong with people showing off their BBCode skills to make such beautiful posts and it should be kept.

That's possible to make in Discourse. I'm talking about the tables nested in quotes nested in block-quotes with a ton of padding and white space

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How do we move/archive threads? The URLs seem location specific, like "t/application-kringle/36" vs "/thread-10471.html" for this thread

These aren't location specific - the t means "thread" and the number appears to be consecutively assigned to each thread (quite a few of these up to the latest thread seem to redirect to "this page doesn't exist or is private" so I'm assuming that there's just a lot of threads visible only to staff and/or a lot of deleted threads)

You can see this by typing in the URL with just "t/36/" which will automatically redirect to Kringle's Application. Typing in "t/86/3/" will automatically redirect you to the third post on the svg image support test, which I'm assuming is the 86th thread created. If the thread is moved, any links would still work fine.

This is actually better than the urls we have here - the url shows you the title of the post, and exactly which reply it is rather than a strange abitrary number. You can get a pop up with the copy pastable version of this by simply clicking the time since it was posted in the top left of the post - which is in exactly the same position as the reply number on our current forums, so it's not much different.

Not only that, but when you copy paste this url into a post or reply by itself anywhere in the forum (without inserting it as a normal url or putting it in code blocks) it will automatically turn into a hyperlink showing the name of the thread and the number of the reply you're linking to if it's on the same line as something else, or a quotebox showing the reply. You can see this here.

The only real problem I can see is if someone is sharing a link to something in the private legislator hall and they accidentally forget to remove the title or, worse, accidentally put the link by itself in its own line which then causes the entire post to be copied over. I honestly don't see this as too much of an issue though - I haven't seen much linking to private threads, and we have a very large number of legislators with a relatively low entry barrier anyways.

(This post was last modified: 05-23-2022, 08:06 PM by Jebediah.)

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It's a good platform, but I see a potential issue. It's based on JavaScript and everyday another browser is dropping support for it. It's highly insecure.  But, not my sandbox.

??? JavaScript is not going anywhere, no browsers are dropping support for it. It’s a bedrock of pretty much every website. The editor you typed this post in is powered by JavaScript.

Behind the scenes, Discourse is powered by Ruby, which isn’t going anywhere either.

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It's a good platform, but I see a potential issue. It's based on JavaScript and everyday another browser is dropping support for it. It's highly insecure.  But, not my sandbox.

??? JavaScript is not going anywhere, no browsers are dropping support for it. It’s a bedrock of pretty much every website. The editor you typed this post in is powered by JavaScript.

Behind the scenes, Discourse is powered by Ruby, which isn’t going anywhere either.


















Uh, Firefox, Chrome(and all of them based on it like Brave), Oracle and Edge have already dropped the java support. Sorry. It's on it's way out. You can always use IE. Again. It may not be a show stopper, but it is coming and will have to be dealt with. As it's not my maintenance nightmare, it's not my call. Just expressing an opinion. 

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