Tips & tricks for using this forum

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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 word will be highlighted.

Tag A User

Use @username to notify someone. @Sam this is the format you would use to flag Navindra and get his attention 🙂

Add other tips in this thread!!

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Special Characters

There are some characters considered special characters in modern forums/code, like "*". If you're having trouble getting specific characters to post, use a backslash ("\") to tell the code that you want the literal use of that character, e.g. "\*" to see "*".

BartK

Editor Toolbar

On a phone the edit box has a toolbar at the bottom with various editing options. You can scroll the toolbar to the right to see more tools.

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Adding A Signature

(At least through the mobile interface, although desktop should be similar...)

Click on Profile
--> Click on Settings
--> Click on Settings at the top of the page and a menu will show up with various options, including "Signature"

If you want to include a link in your signature, use this syntax:

[url=https://forum.pianotell.com/d/685-post-pictures-of-your-pianos-here/45]1999 Bösendorfer 225[/url]

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Sharing Photos

There are two ways to do this, depending on your situation.

1) Upload Photo
If you have a photo to upload (e.g. you took a photo with your phone camera and wish to share it), click this button and your image will be uploaded to imgur and displayed here:

2) Share Photo Stored Online
If your file is on the web already and you have a link to it, click here:

And then replace the "https://" text within the parentheses with the URL to your image:

The syntax from PW also works! I was able to easily paste a series of photos from an old PW post that looks like this:

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Emojis

If you're on mobile, your mobile keyboard should have options. But there's an easy way to access built-in forum emojis if you're not on mobile. They are in format :emoji: so type ":face" and all sorts of face options show up in a drop-down! Or just type ":" and then a keyword to find whatever other emojis you're looking for.

From @Jane: On a Windows computer, hold the Windows key and type the period. Then from the popup window, select an emoji (type to search if what you want isn't visible).

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

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?

rogerch

Emojis on Mac

In addition to use the ":" character for forum emojis, the system emojis on the Mac are accessible by typing a word such as "smile" and then press fn-E to get a list of emojis to pick from. Double click on the emoji you want from the list.

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Spoilers (Details hidden)

To put spoilers under a cut or for lengthy posts where people may not want to see all the details unless they're interested, highlight the text you want to be hidden and then click this button:

You'll get a "Details" cut like this for multiple paragraphs:

Or a clickable black box like this for text within a single paragraph.

Update: I figured out how the code differentiates a black box vs Details cut. The first example below results in a Details cut and the second example will display a black box. So you can just remove the two trailing "!<" characters if you want to get "Details".

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Page Divider

The syntax for inserting a page divider is "***". The result looks like this:

Sgisela

This is very helpful, Twocats.

Sgisela

Any tips for dealing with the notifications? Is there a way to clear individual ones? I was kind of expecting that some would be automatically cleared when I viewed the post, but this doesn’t seem to happen. I now have a long notification list, and I’m kind of afraid to clear the whole thing.

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Sgisela hmmmm it looks like they get cleared when I click on them, but there's no swipe or other option. I just disabled being notified of likes for my account as I think it'll keep the notifications less cluttered. But it doesn't answer your question.

@navindra can you see if there's a plugin or option to swipe away individual notifications?

navindra

twocats Is the check mark what you're looking for?:

twocats

navindra yes, but I can't activate it on my phone! If I hold down my finger it prompts me to open in new tab. If I tap on it, it goes to the post.

navindra

twocats I just tested it on my phone. First quickly touch the right side so that you see the checkmark. Now quickly touch the checkmark to dismiss it.

I agree, it's not the most intuitive thing.

twocats

navindra I'm on Android using the Brave browser, a quick touch dismisses the notification but there's no checkmark.

@Sgisela try it out and see what works for you? And then I can add a new tip and if it's ok with you all we can remove all these discussion posts!

twocats

twocats @Sgisela try it out and see what works for you? And then I can add a new tip and if it's ok with you all we can remove all these discussion posts!

@Sgisela quick tap on the right side is working very well for me to remove individual notifications. I did a bunch today!

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!

PianoMonk

Any tips on how to embed a YouTube video? I put an embeded video in the recordings section, and it works, but I can't seem to figure out how to hide the embed html.

Sophia

@PianoMonk I think the forum software is smart enough that you just need to post the link itself. I did so earlier and was surprised that it came out fully embedded 🙂

PianoMonk

Sophia Ah, yes. That worked a treat! Thanks for that.