It's about time TKP had a modern editor. I hope this will simplify a lot of the embedding and formatting issues on the site. Please share any feedback you have. FYI: You can toggle your editing experience in your user profile. Unless you know what you're doing, use the visual mode, but it shipped with a toggleable HTML mode.
More site updates are coming. And I'm thinking I might open a feature requests thread. And other good news, the first $9.99 / monthly subscriber is in the books.
Thanks for your support of TKP, more good things are in the works and coming.
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It works great for me.
The insert table, list, and embed updates are great QoL updates. Thank you.
Ohoho baby WE are UNSTOPPABLE
I can finally add gifs
Any chance keyboard shortcuts and/or markdown shortcuts are coming in the future? 👀🤞
What would each of those do?
Let me format text without taking my fingers off the keyboard.
but I might be the only who types that way lol
Edit
waitit's so much easier nowOh, the basics should work, but I didn't map anything advanced. What are markdown shortcuts?
A la reddit posting, surrounding in *asterisks* to indicate italic, double **asterisks** for bold, [brackets] (followed by parentheses) for links and such.
But I don't really mind the RTF interface. Haven't tried to see if keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl+I or ctrl+B work (on mobile now)
Oh, duh, makes sense. How many other people would use a markdown editor?
I absolutely would
In the past, it would've really been nice bc you had tags like <blockquote>, and there was a start/finish, so if i was trying to quote on mobile I'd need to:
Add the formatting tags
Position my text in between
Move my curser to the right spot
Paste it (without my curser moving)
But now it's wayyy less of a PIA. Everything is one click. I don't need to highlight text to ensure that the right words are formatted correctly.
also, on a desktop browser cmd+B and Cmd+I work for bold/italicize shortcuts.
Huge QoL improvement all around.
are tenor gifs permitted?
I clicked the link button there to copy the link and then tried to paste here as gif and it seems not permitted, but it could be me
and giphy works as expected, but tenor does not
Tenor works now. Good shout.
Thanks! Speedy!
I love the idea of the change as it helps a lot with things that were some times weirdly complex (like finding the actual image url at some imgur)
But on mobile the post is largely the options menu and not the typing so its a big cluttered. Don't change it for me cause ill probably get used to it, but its my first thought.
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drophide it!How's mobile now?
Much better
Serendipitous timing for the Hokie vibes to be good and to be able to turn those vibes into code!
Okay this is awesome, two thumbs up
Lord it's hell to get old. I don't understand a word of this stuff.
As someone who is getting older, pulled a hamstring by merely squatting down, and is struggling to walk up stairs, I feel every word of this. 😂 Though I was hoping this would provide a simpler and more intuitive experience. Overall it should make it easier for less technical people to post gifs and Twitter embeds.
OK. I do know what a gif is but don't ever use them or see the need. As for twitter and all that stuff, my one and only social media presence is right here. I am below the "less technical people" level, and if I need to learn something for reasons I agree are important, I will do so, but mainly I'm just not interested in computer stuff and my phone is for texting and phone calls, period. My friends make fun of me for my near Luddite ways, but TKP fills the gap in my Hokie news I used to plug with local radio and the Hokie Huddler when I lived around the 'Burg and I am glad I found the site.
In other words, happy for one and all for your improvements, they seem like a hit. Maybe someday I'll avail myself of the more technical side of life and join the modern world, but the shorter my life becomes, the less time I want to spend with it.
Im a tweener. I can't keep up with some of the stuff discussed for sure. I was about to ask for a legend for all the new symbols above the Add a New Comment section (know some, but not all by visual alone).
What I did this morning was go to the Add a New Comment section and hit the icons one by one and based on what appeared, was able to decipher all.
EDIT: And yes, to Joe's comment, this is much easier for less techy folks. Much appreciated.
Awesome...really makes the posting process simpler, particularly on mobile.
I had gotten used to the previous system, but would still have times where the formatting would be off and that, combined with fat fingers, could be frustrating on the phone.
I must be dumb... I can't figure out how to remove/edit a gif and/or add any text to the post after you've inserted it.