A few things about the new forum

But how could I be so used to this MISSING feature to me, if the only place where I could use it was on wiki/tutorial posts, where I most likely didn’t spend my time on.

Don’t want to argue too long over this but yeah no I’m convinced too I’m right so… I’ll look into a default discourse installation to see when I’ll have time, maybe that will shed some light.

Well, maybe you are thinking of another Discourse-powered forum. But here at the Manjaro forum it has always been the way it is now. :slight_smile:

yes less level 2 or 3 is not a problem, but exits a bug : you are as me TL3 and only wiki is ok

Manjaro is the only Discourse forum I can think of or quickly find from my bookmarks. That’s really strange if what you say is true. Maybe I had access to a feature I shouldn’t have? No that’s weird.

To get used to this feature and instantly noticing it is broken, I had to have access to this for real.

EDIT: can someone check the old forum and my user account (same login) to check if I had this right before? not urgent but just a sanity check (literally). I can’t access my old account anymore as simple user.

Some days ago this was possible (everywhere in the forums), but I think they tightened the restrictions (it was also possible to mark solutions for non ops). I also thought this was a TL3 feature on the previous forum, but not sure.

For what is worth, I remember perfectly I could see previous edits in old forum, in ANY post. I never said anything about it, but I disliked that feature. One thing is to see your own edits, another thing is to see everyone’s edits. If you edit your post, it’s often (or at least sometimes) because you don’t want the previous content to be shown.

So, my personal opinion in this matter is:

  • if the forum can’t be configured to hide other’s edits while enabling you to see yours, it is better not to show them at all;

  • wiki posts are different - on these I think it is advantageous to show all edits to everyone, since it can weight on the content someone is considering to input.

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Ok, makes sense, although I would like to see when and why mods and TL3’s edit posts.

I have no idea. I don’t even know in what level I’m at.

EDIT: I’m at the basic level.

That is TL1: Understanding Discourse Trust Levels

It would be nice if the batch also shows the trust level (So Basic -TL1)

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Btw. what is really anoying is that you can’t see who replies to who if there’s no quote. I guess this is so there can’t be made mistakes by replying to the wrong post.

Yes, it was, but all members should normally be capable of that, save perhaps the TL0s.


It depends on which Reply button you click. If you click the button inside of someone’s post, then there will be an arrow pointing at the person you’ve replied to, and if you click that, then you also get to see the exact post.

If on the other hand you click the generic Reply button at the bottom ─ currently blue here at my end, in the dark theme ─ then it goes to the thread in general and not to the person you’re actually replying to. :wink:

What I meant was:

I also thought this was a TL3 feature on the previous forum, but not sure.


Indeed, it usually does do that, but there are instances where I reply to a person and I can see that when I edit the post, but the arrow is not shown outside the edit screen.

Yep I can confirm that too, pretty sure I replied to people and the arrow is not showing, I THINK, if you reply directly to someone from the proper reply button, but your post is the direct post after the one you’re replying to.
Not sure if that makes sense but now I think about it this is what happened at least twice today to me.

EDIT: someone direct reply to me with the proper button in my post without quoting me and see if this is the case.

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Like this? :stuck_out_tongue:

Oops, I must apparently type at least 20 characters. Now that is certainly new. :thinking:

Edit: No arrow. :thinking:

Yep seems confirmed. Also noticed the 20 char limit today but though it was maybe the same before :smiley:

EDIT: I direct replied to you too :wink: so yeah if you direct reply to last message it doesn’t show the arrow, not same behavior as before for sure, it was ALWAYS having the arrow before.

Yes, I seem to remember that too. :thinking:

It might just be a setting in the configuration of the forum. :man_shrugging:

only view top right avatar if is not the following message ?

That’s what it looks like now, yes.

Thanks for confirming.

I disagree though with the hidden edits, if the concern is in case you write things you regret, then maybe do not write inappropriate things, and you can still request a post deletion anyway.

I think it was a great feature to see what changed in a post you read one hour ago or the day before (edits less than 5 minutes after posting don’t even show FYI). It is not rare that people come back to add more information, change an erroneous information, or completely change the content of their post which then makes you the one who write unrelated things. Having this edit history available only adds to the forum.

Ok if you have bad behavior on the forum then regret talking crap to people, then yeah maybe in that case people can see you wrote crap. But I don’t get removing a nice feature in case of user bad behavior and then regrets (anyway post deletion exist).

I thought the dark mode on the previous forum was pretty ugly. Too much light grey. I enabled my own style via stylus addon. I think this dark mode is actually really nice. Hope they keep it as an option if the new one is quite different.