These shares, as with Facebook and Spotify, mostly just make me sad. Most of the time, I can’t see them, and when I can, my browser has to take a shower afterwards. I don’t have a solution, though, short of posting everything here that fits within limits.
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Unfortunately it seems thumbnails work only for reels
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Sx-r4to-a ⇒
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3Sx-r4to-a
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2fJ3intkty/ ⇒
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I wish there was a way to make it common knowledge that a topic with no replies, withdrawn by the author, will automatically disappear in 24 hours. I see people making a second post saying “please delete” or something similar, or changing the title to “please lock” when if they just withdrew the post topic (like you would a normal post using the garbage can icon), then the thread would disappear on it’s own without any additional maintenance.
It seems like this must not be common knowledge because it happens pretty frequently.
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I think they’re just alarmed by the lingering evidence of their ill advised post and hope to obliterate it sooner
In instances where instead of withdrawing the topic, someone posts “changed mind please close.”
I’m just saying in those instances, you can close it yourself (by using the trash can icon) unless you create a second post in the topic, at that point it’s then too late.
I find old closed marketplace threads useful to get a sense of price history, and I am sad when someone deletes everything they wrote and then says “please close”. A closed historic thread can still be of value. Can an individual close without deleting, themselves?
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I have a no-longer-useful Discourse tip!
Have you ever been on the forum and want to search text on the page, so you press Command+F, but then the forum software hijacks the key combination and brings up the Discourse search function instead of the built-in browser search? Well, it doesn’t seem to be happening now, but it happened for years and it was super annoying. You can override it with Command+G. (Presumably Control+F/Control+G on Windows).
Was there an update that fixed that? It’s nice that it’s not happening now. If it ever comes back, I got you covered, G (not F).
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I will see your Command+F and raise it with the / key for hijacked search, and the Command+G with the ' key for forced browser search. (I think it’s for links only though…)
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Oh nice, they changed it to /! I wonder when this happened, because I’ve been doing +G for a while. I’ll feel right at home with / for search, as long-time a Vi/Vim user
actually many vim shortcuts work here, press Shift+? and you’ll see you can do almost everything here with a keyboard only, and most of it in vim fashion…
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yypp dt$
Nah… that didn’t work. lol
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I’ve seen this couple of times
but have no idea how that works, can a regular user mark a comment as Solved?
this is great feature for any question/support threads both for visual confirmation that the issue is solved and for quickly finding the solution comment.
I was just wondering this myself.
No clue where it comes from, haven’t dug this yet.
I think it’s a plugin
maybe only the OP can mark a comment as Solved?
either way, I think it’s great and if there’s a way to do it it’s worth making some sort of message encouraging the OP or whoever to mark a solution
@lowph even if it is, it’s already enabled, just not clear how it’s done
there’s also a check mark appearing next to the thread title which is a great confirmation if the issue is resolved
I mean: how do you (de)activate this option as a topic OP? In some (most?) case it’s completely useless. Above comment was selected by mistake. And as soon as you select another one it vanishes.
Discourse Solved plugin. Admins can enable it on specific categories. It can also be enabled on specific topics by using a tag.
OK, I reckon @Patrik or someone else activated this to identify the bugs that were declared already.
But as it seems you can only have one answer to OP’s question, it doesn’t work for the “bug reports” case and should be deactivated I guess.
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It would be really useful if the ‘DT2 bugs’ organisation was a sub-category with one bug per topic though.
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