Forum Issue September 06, 2022 01:34PM |
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Re: initial appt is 2 months away September 06, 2022 03:03PM |
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Kwilk
If you write a message, then try to quote a previous message, it will erase without asking everything you just wrote. That needs to be fixed.
I just wrote a long detailed post, then clicked the quote button in the above post to continue my post with a reply to it. That erased the long detail post i had written and put in the quote in place of it. That needs to be fixed.
Re: initial appt is 2 months away September 06, 2022 04:26PM |
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Re: Forum Issue September 06, 2022 09:19PM |
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Kwilk
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Quote overwrites existing reply text
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03-14-2022, 08:55 AM
Permit me to address some of the comments above before closing this thread.
One may reasonably expect and prefer a certain behavior from an interface, but it is unreasonable to assume that behavior is universal. The Organ Forum software often provides several methods for accomplishing the same end. Some may consider having multiple options for a task to be confusing while others may appreciate its flexibility.
The operational behaviors and features of this Forum are documented in the Forum's FAQ and the tutorials found in the Articles section. The FAQ does say that clicking the Quote button initiates a reply and it, and the tutorial article it references, describe several ways of quoting including how you can insert multiple quotes in a reply, how to use selective quoting, and how to use BBCodes for this purpose. Whether one avails oneself to information provided in these areas is a matter of personal choice, but the information is there for those who wish to access it.
Navigation to the FAQ and Articles sections of the Forum is part of the main menu. An index to the FAQ articles is included in the sidebar on the home page and in the FAQ section itself. Alerts to helpful articles are often included in the scrolling Featured Posts banner on the home page. I feel it necessary to point this out again as the number of views these resources receive is small, and frankly, hardly worth the time and effort it takes me to create them.
I understand the frustration of losing a carefully worded response through an unexpected software error or operational misunderstanding. In fact, there is an article in the FAQ on the how it is often possible to recover this information. In this particular instance, a couple of presses of the undo key on the keyboard would have restored the overwritten information.
Last edited by Admin; 03-14-2022, 12:09 PM. Reason: Fixed typos
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