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"Insert Link" button

All Acting Regiment

18:39 / 29.10.05

Would it be worthwhile to have a little button in the new topic window that you could press to insert a blank link into the text box?

w1rebaby

20:02 / 29.10.05

I'm wondering whether anyone would read it, as opposed to the current situation with the whacking great bolded-and-underlined "how to format text, post links and images" link that exists already.

miss wonderstarr

20:36 / 29.10.05

I'd really like a one-click insert pics and links button, like I've seen on other forums. If it wasn't too much trouble, that would save a lot of fuss in my opinion. I do use the guide to inserting them, but I find it a little finnicky.

Papess

22:13 / 31.10.05

I guess I am so used to posting here because I CANNOT stand those stupid buttons. I am always putting the code in on other forums with those bloody buttons, and it doesn't post because they are generally BBcode - or some such thing - and it won't take HTML.

quixote

02:28 / 02.11.05

Buttons are handy. Ideally, as replacement for standard html so that people like the commenter above don't like them don't have to use them.

I had a different request, and I'm not sure where it should go. Perhaps we need a "request for features" thread? Anyway: the most recent comments are at the end of the series, but the navigation links to go back a level or two are at the top of the page. How about adding the same links at the bottom, to save us a bit of tedious page-upping?

Tom Coates

07:01 / 02.11.05

Well you're welcome to a request for features thread, but I can tell you almost without exception that I won't be able to implement them for you. To be honest, technical changes at this stage really aren't an option. We need to build on top of the technology unfortunately, not change it.

Evil Scientist

07:41 / 02.11.05

I'd really like a one-click insert pics and links button, like I've seen on other forums.

Perhaps we can become an aggressively hegemonic board? Invade and assimilate!

"We are the Barbelith. Resistance is futile. Your message boards and programs will be adapted to service our own."

Anyone? Fellas?

The Natural Way

10:21 / 02.11.05

I have to say, I really don't see the problem with using code. It's simple and fast and it gives people the chance to dabble in the occult world of HTML.

Axolotl

11:15 / 02.11.05

Though I occasionally find it a little fiddly & irritating, especially when posting in rush or on dial-up, I kind of like faffing about with html as I can pretend I am teh 733t h4xx0r*.
As a compromise could we not have the relevant bits of code showing on the reply screen? That would make it easier to cut & paste them into the reply.
*Yes, I do know how sad that is.

sleazenation

11:33 / 02.11.05

There are already crib sheets of the HTML-challenged on the barbelith wiki - links on pretty much every page of barbelith - including the reply pages - how much hand-holding do people need?

Smoothly

12:45 / 02.11.05

The main advantage I can see of automating links would be that it would prevent typos in the code and save mods a few jobs, as well as standardising whether off-site links opened in a new window, etc.
Personally, I find the need to check tags to be a useful brake against posting too quickly.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

16:43 / 02.11.05

I've always had an OpenOffice text document with all the relvant HTML I need saved to my desktop... I just cut and paste from that when (as is often the case) I can't remember what to type. That said, I'm finding it easier and easier to remember how to do stuff that used to seem like rocket science to me before.

See, it's educational as well!

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