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Latest 20 Posts improvement suggestion
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nikh
I have a suggestion for the PMC forums, and it's quite hard to put into a title. Please read through all of the spoilers!
Thank you for reading!
Latest 20
On the right-hand side there is a "Latest 20 Posts" section that shows recent forum posts, and part of what those posts contain. So if a post looked like this:
then the sidebar might show this:
Steve said 1 minute ago
I have a suggestion for PMC!
I have a suggestion for PMC!
then the sidebar might show this:
Steve said 1 minute ago
I have a suggestion for PMC!
The problem
However, the sidebar doesn't show if text in a post was quoted. Another post might look like this:
When in the sidebar it looks like this:
Steve said 1 minute ago
I have a suggestion for PMC! *Hopefully this is constructive criticism*
I have a suggestion for PMC!*Hopefully this is constructive criticism*
When in the sidebar it looks like this:
Steve said 1 minute ago
I have a suggestion for PMC! *Hopefully this is constructive criticism*
My opinion on why this is bad
To make matters worse, this can make you look like you said something you didn't say. Again, a post might look like this:
When in the sidebar it looks like this:
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Intense rage* *Something else*
Add possible text cutoff...
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Intense rage*...
And it looks like the user "Someone" is very rude from looking at the sidebar, even though they said something else! This can be misleading or confusing. I think this should be changed.
*Intense rage*
*Something else*
When in the sidebar it looks like this:
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Intense rage* *Something else*
Add possible text cutoff...
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Intense rage*...
And it looks like the user "Someone" is very rude from looking at the sidebar, even though they said something else! This can be misleading or confusing. I think this should be changed.
A few solutions
There are a few solutions to this problem that I have thought of.
1) Italicize or format quotes in the sidebar
2) Remove quotes in the sidebar
3) Preface quotes in the sidebar with something such as "User said 'Something'
Option 1:
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Intense rage* *Something else*
Option 2:
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Something else*
Option 3:
Someone said 1 minute ago
User said "*Intense rage*" *Something else*
1) Italicize or format quotes in the sidebar
2) Remove quotes in the sidebar
3) Preface quotes in the sidebar with something such as "User said 'Something'
Option 1:
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Intense rage* *Something else*
Option 2:
Someone said 1 minute ago
*Something else*
Option 3:
Someone said 1 minute ago
User said "*Intense rage*" *Something else*
Thank you for reading!
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Maybe it could be: Started about 5498 hours ago
RandomPlayerName quoted about 2 hours ago
"*rage rage rage*"
So maybe they could change said to quoted
RandomPlayerName quoted about 2 hours ago
"*rage rage rage*"
So maybe they could change said to quoted
