Tips & tricks for using this forum

twocats · 2024-05-26T00:43:05+00:00

Easy Quoting Simply highlight your text and then click the "Quote" button that pops up! If on mobile, hold your finger on the text for a second and then the...

ShiroKuro

On my laptop (Firefox browser), private discussions can be found along the top, three options to the left of the "start a discussion" button:

On my phone (thankfully, I found it!) there are two triangles to the right of where it says "forums" at the very top, and that's where private discussions shows up.

ShiroKuro

Here’s where it is on my phone:

ShiroKuro

You gotta love how easy it is to post photos!!! That allow makes the move here worth it! 😃

twocats

Dismissing A Single Notification

On mobile (Android), a quick but firm tap on the very right side of the notification will clear it without taking you to the post.

It sounds like on iOS, a quick tap on the right will show a check box, which if tapped again will clear the notification.

If anyone has other solutions or experiences on different interfaces, let me know and I'll update this post.

Sgisela

twocats — sorry for the delayed reply. On both my phone and iPad, @navindra ’s instructions work (quickly tapping on the right and then immediately tapping the check mark). I think when I initially tried this, I wasn’t understanding the instruction and was doing something wrong, but as I’ve used it more, I’ve figured it out. It’s not very intuitive, but at some point I caught on!

twocats

Moving Your Thread to a Different Category

If you're the owner of a thread (you were the person who started it) and decided later that you posted in the wrong category, you don't need to bother the moderators to move it!

Simply click on the three vertical dots in the top right corner (at least on mobile) and click "Edit Tags". Then remove the current tag and select the new one, and the post will appear in the new subforum.

twocats

Find Your Threads

Looking for the threads that you started? Go to Profile and then (on mobile) click the top and a menu will appear, along with other options:

twocats

Recover Drafts

First make sure that "Draft Autosave" is enabled from Profile -> Settings.

If you're in the middle of writing something and then click away and your draft is gone (so frustrating, right??), you can find it in the Drafts area by going to the Homepage and clicking at the top left (on mobile). A list of all your unfinished posts will be there!

Gombessa

I ran into a minor bug - I had the browser sitting open on PT for a few hours while I was out, and when I came back to it, one of my posts had changed to [deleted] as author. Refreshing the page fixed it, but it was odd! @navindra in case

twocats

Gombessa it's happened to me sometimes too! The user shows up as deleted and the likes are gone. Unfortunately it seems kinda random and I can't replicate it, so it seems like it would be a tricky bug to file if it can't be consistently reproduced.

navindra

Gombessa twocats Noted. Will keep an eye out for this one. I have some guesses on what might be going on... I can try to repro and report it back.

Also this prompted me to take a quick backup. 😃

Pallas

Gombessa I've had it happen too.

Josephine

navindra

Sometimes when I refresh a page it goes back instead. Could that have something to do with it?

navindra

Josephine It goes back to the previous page you were on when you refresh the page? How are you refreshing the page?

I think Flarum tries to refresh content dynamically and there are ways of making that work better that are more expensive in terms of server resources. I suspect FreeFlarum has made some optimizations to lessen the load that may be causing some of these bugs.

It's just speculation on my part though. There are some other avenues to investigate.

Josephine

When I go to the home page (on my phone) there is often an arrow in the left top corner, and when I want to log out I first have to refresh the page to make those 3 lines appear. So I refresh the page by clicking the icon for refreshing a page in my browser (Firefox). And often it works, but sometimes I go back to the previous page instead.

navindra

Josephine Oh interesting. This sounds familiar, I think it may have been previously reported. Will try it on my phone and see what's going on.

Josephine

Maybe it's Firefox, and not this forum? I also have some problems with other websites when I use Firefox.

Animisha

twocats Also apparently the Globe key on Mac will bring up emojis!

My Mac keyboard does not have a Globe key. If I click on FN, nothing happens. If I click on emojis, I get this:

Any tips on how to get emojis?

bSharp

Animisha

You can try typing ":" and then a word after it to find emojis. The search doesn't work like you would think all the time. Typing ":happy" returns nothing.

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