Testbed thread... for Discourse forum experimenting

[https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/nick-hall/45/6_2.png] Nick-Hallhttps://gramps.discourse.group/u/nick-hall
January 2

Another short message to test the new subject line for emails in mailing list mode.

Top post reply for testing purposes.

[https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/nick-hall/45/6_2.png] Nick-Hallhttps://gramps.discourse.group/u/nick-hall
January 2

Another short message to test the new subject line for emails in mailing list mode.

Hello Nick,

Quote line 1
Another test reply!
Quote line 2
Comment on second quote.

All good from this end. :slight_smile:

Forgot to mention that I removed empty lines from quoted section, for brevity.

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Another similar test with two quotes:

Quote A

Reply to quote A

Quote B

Reply to quote B

I’m afraid I’m rather confused by the tests and cannot confim (yet?)
that they are OK.

Best regards

Janusz

Another similar test with two quotes:

/Person A said:/
Quote A

Reply to quote A

/Person A said:/
//Quote B

Reply to quote B

Another similar test with two quotes:

Person A said:

Quote A
Reply to quote A

Person A said:

Quote B
Reply to quote B

Another similar test with two quotes:

> Person X said:

Quote A

Reply to quote A

> Person X said:

Quote B

Reply to quote B

Sorry for the confusion.

Quotes seem to work in email replies if you keep them simple.

Testing a reply via email in plain text mode.

Dunno if you’re seeing the same problem with hyperlinks. So here’s a capture from the Yahoo mail app on mobile Android (Motorola X⁴)

Perhaps markdown would work better? The texted to be linked in square brackets followed immediately with the URL in parentheses.

Like:


[Nick](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/nick-hall)

Nick

-Brian

Here’s a nice piece on backticks; the ‘literal’ (like HTML <pre> <code> tags) equivalent for overriding automatic reformatting in Discourse:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-how-to-quote-code-with-backticks/7530

-Brian

Testing a reply via email in HTML mode.

I’ve replied twice in this thread via email – once in plain text, once in HTML mode – neither have displayed the quotes. In this reply, I’m using the website.

Nice!

If you reply by email and realize you’ve typed a typo (or committed a gaff), you can go into the Discourse topic & edit it. If you catch the item within the “censoring delay”, you can edit (or retract!) the message. And that means that the people ‘following’ the topic or in ‘mailing list mode’ will only see the revised material.

Nick, how big is the delay window? (Might be a coincidental effect of where we are in the Sidekiq scheduler. For instance, if Sidekiq posted a mailjob every 15 minutes, on the quarter-hour; a user could easily tweak their error rec’d by Discourse at 9:02 but not necessarily the one at 9:14:30!)

-Brian

It is configurable. The current setting is 10 minutes.

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Just another test.

@Nick-Hall

Just looked at stats. One of the items was a count of number of topics marked ‘solved’ or ’ best answer’

Looks like that is a plugin for Discourse

Is that a feature you think we need?

It is already installed and enabled in the “Support” category.

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