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...

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. 😃

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.

Pallas

Gombessa I've had it happen too.

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.

Animisha

Thank you @bSharp!

twocats

Animisha using ":" try typing ":face" to get faces 🙂

ShiroKuro

from my laptop, I have had some luck with searching for emoji by keywords. Other times I go over to FB, find the one I want and copy it. 😅

ETA from my phone or iPad, I just use the emoji keyboard.

twocats

Search Forum

On the home page, if you click at the top left (on mobile) there's a search box:

WieWaldi

How to make text smaller (by ^raising/_lowering)

Found out by accident, but it works only for single words. A blank ends the effect:
^Upper ^word -> ^Upper ^word (like E=mc^2 -> E=mc²) 👈the great formula of Edvard Grieg
~Lower ~word -> _Lower _word (like B~b -> B_b)

OneFourFive

The gold star? I came over from brand X.

navindra

OneFourFive Welcome and certainly! 🙂 Out of curiosity, what's brand X and how did you find PT from there?

OneFourFive

navindra brand x = piano world(forum)

Gombessa

Hey Flarum experts, how does this feature work?

When I go to my profile, I can see "Discussions." Ones I've marked to follow show up, which is great. But I also have one PM thread. It doesn't seem to be reflected in the "count" at the left of the screen, and no other PM discussions show up. .

How's the count determined, or which PMs show up?

navindra

Gombessa When I visit your profile, and click Discussions, this is what I see:

So really, what it's showing me is all the Discussions you started. Of course, I don't see your PM discussions, but for you, additionally, it shows PM discussions that you started.

I guess the bug is that it doesn't include PM discussions in the count for you.

Gombessa

navindra it shows PM discussions that you started

I missed that basic part (I think with the index being off and the PM shown, it didn't occur to me that this is stuff I started). Not sure for anyone else, but it doesn't help me much to see the threads/PMs I've started in a top level nav, since I'm just as likely to be as invested in anyone else's thread 🙂

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