Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

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[Anonymous Coward]

Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Sometime next week I hope just about everyone with a Reg account will be able to start up their own topics. But for now we have to manually give super powers.

If you want to participate before the public unveiling. - ping me here. I will do my best to oblige.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

I'll give it a whirl.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Done - btw you can now also use some html formats and html links

[Geoff May]

Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

<waves>

Does this mean that the default "Post" text that says "No HTML" would be replaced for the power users?

[Anonymous Coward]

No HTML...

Try it Geoff - as well as links you have these to play with.

Bold, emphasis, strikethrough.

[Geoff May]

Loverly and thanks :-)

Was it intentional not to allow underline, superscript and subscript?

Those are about the only ones (particularly superscript) that I would probably use.

[dogged]

Re: Loverly and thanks :-)

I'd like a crack at that. I have some thoughts on hardware/software demand that I'd like to run by the assembled worthies (and Barry).

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Loverly and thanks :-)

It was intentional to start off with a limited set of html formats and those are the ones we picked for now.

Some other people have called for blockquote and

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[SoaG]

Re: Loverly and thanks :-)

As long as they get the <Rant> and <Sarcasm> tags working

[amanfromearth]

Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Me, me, please !!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Since you asked so nicely ...

[amanfromearth]

Re: Re: Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Thanks, but should something have happened yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Yes.

[Barry Rueger]

Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

me too! me too!

[Barry Rueger]

Re: Re: Drew's Cookie Jar - psst. want a forum upgrade

Hmm - I guess this means that I'm already here?? Or just that I can't start new topics?

[Anonymous Coward]

Super powers granted

Including Topical application

[jai]

i shall wait for the super powers along with the rest of the hoi poloi next week. i came here just looking for a free cookie!! :(

[Ian Stephenson]

Suggestion for a forum upgrade

How about a forum wide scoring table giving a list of posts that have scored particularly high - or low - in upvotes/downvotes as this will give an idea of what topics are interesting people.

Perhaps giving all time as well as in the past month.

Not that I am competitive in anyway shape or form honest (46 upvotes is the best I have managed on a single post)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Suggestion for a forum upgrade

Ian - funny that you mention that. But this is something I would like for our next round of upgrades.

[Shades]

Oooh...

...so this is why people have been able to use markup, I though they had found some bug in the input filters.

Could I be bestowed with the powers of markup please Drew? I promise to use them for good only! ... Or I could just start using lolcat speak (that seemed to work for someone else!) ;)

[Ben 42]

Re: Oooh...

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Mostly I just wanted to try out the new reply feature though... ;-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't say no to some formatting options. Thankee kindly.

[durandal]

I'll have a go!

in the spirit of curiosity, of course!

[Anonymous Coward]

dogged, moiety, Shades, durandal - our wish is your html command

Upgraded

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: dogged, moiety, Shades, durandal - our wish is your html command

Why thank you.

[dogged]

Re: dogged, moiety, Shades, durandal - our wish is your html command

Grazie

[Field Marshal Von Krakenfart]

Testing formatting options

<b>Bold</b>

<em>emphasis</em>,

<strike>strikethrough</strike>

<a href="http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1316474" title="Permalink to a post">#</a>

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Testing formatting options

Try now.

[MrJP]

By the power of greyskull...

...er, what I meant to say was, could I please have super powers?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: By the power of greyskull...

Yep.

[dogged]

Re: Re: By the power of greyskull...

Oh, this guy is good.

[Someone Else]

I'd also like to give it a whirl

Tried \<b> and \</b> in a post a couple of days ago, and it failed miserably. Did I not utter the magic incantation properly, or do I need to be endowed (snicker) with the same super-posers that were alluded to above?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I'd also like to give it a whirl

You shall now succeed magnificently.

[Someone Else]

Thank you

And I love my new super-posers (Now, if you help my typing...)

[Andy Farley]

Whaaat?

No blink tag? Obligatory "this forum is teh sucks and your in legue with the debil" type post.

Is it possible to get an auto alert every time some loser tries <script language="JavaScript"> ? You could do a great line in booting.

[Shades]

Many...

...Thanks Drew! :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me in

I'd love to come and play

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Let me in

When is a door not a door? When it's ajar ... come on in.

[Christopher W]

Oh hello...

This looks like it could be fun. Count me in.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oh hello...

You're in.

[Arctic fox]

Just testing.

help I really need some formatting.

Ah, bliss it was this dawn to be alive.

-:)

AF

[Southern]

I've got some bourbons...

...and custard cremes going spare for the jar, can I come in too?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I've got some bourbons...

I don't do biscuits myself, especially not fig rolls. Besides don't you know that custard creams can kill. And that's official ....

Southern, BoldMan you're both in.

[BoldMan]

Garibaldi's rule!

More biscuity goodness here if I can be allowed to take part - ta muchness

[SYNTAX__ERROR]

Re: Garibaldi's rule!

Give it back. I'm sure he's missing it.

[(AMPC) Anonymous and mostly paranoid coward]

Here is another suggestion

In the drop down box, which lists posts in oldest newest thread order, what about a link to "your latest post" or something? Might make it easier to jump to ones own comments, when part of a long and tedious thread

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Here is another suggestion

We'll have a think.

[EWI]

*ahem*

Can I get on the list, pls?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: *ahem*

Yup. Have a go.