Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-9605025-20191021030055

One thing to keep in mind is that the crowd posting here is likely to be biased in its view. Few who are perfectly happy with Discussions are likely to have any reason to post here; or even read this thread in the first place. - reply to #63 by KockaAdmiralac Okay okay. You have made your point about it being a security risk. That being the case, I would say there is an even stronger case for offering an actual archival option rather than essentially saying "convert to Discussions and hope it doesn't get edited". Unfortunately, it sounds like even that is off the table at the moment.

Ah. So that is how those letters are determined. I had wondered about that but don't know enough to figure it out on my own.

Interesting information regarding Discussions images. I'll have to keep all of that in mind for potential later use. Am I correct in assuming that the image "name" in this case is also produced by some hash? In which case, you would need the URL for the new avatar to update it? If so, that would provide some additional information for another thread where a user was asking if it is possible to retrieve past avatars. - reply to #65 by Mira Laime Mira Laime wrote: ...

... Regular users can't because they'd otherwise have the power to retroactively remove the foundation for an entire conversation, rendering replies meaningless, or trolling people by switching their original post around later.

... Yeah. That is one thing I wish talk pages and threaded discussions would have protection against. However, threaded dsicussions are going away and I don't see how any such protection could be abllied to talk pages. - reply to #78 by KockaAdmiralac ... and another link to save for later. Thanks. - reply to #83 by Tupka217 Not sure how this thing about categories came up but yeah, I agree. I am having similar problems with images on the wiki I admin. - reply to #95 by SlyCooperFan1 SlyCooperFan1 wrote: ...

I should make mention of the fact that the actual Announcements feature itself has no such log for users to go back through a wiki's previous announcements, especially those that occurred before the user joined, in case they wanted to see previous important discussions. This is the biggist issue I have with Announcements. - reply to and  by Gmo666 This is done for security reasons and will most likely never be removed. I am willing to bet you haven't logged out of your account in quite some time. Log out and then log back in. That typically fixes the issue. If you need further help with this, start a separate thread. - reply to #99 by AimeePlaysMSM I agree with most of what you said. However, I don't think the display is what most people are concerned about. It seems to me that most of the concerns are about what content can be posted.

As for DPL Forum, my biggest issue is that every little edit pushes a page to the top of the list. Take the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki for example. They need to update a bunch of links. Okay, use a bot. Uh oh. Now the bot's edits have pushed decade-old discussions to the top of the list; burying a question a new user just posted. - reply to by Duskaa and by TortoiseCat5 In addition to what Tupka217 said in, see what Mira Laime said in (item #2). - reply to #104 by Golfpecks256 Sure, it copied the "theme" in terms of appearance. However, in terms of integration with the wiki content, all you have are links. As mentioned earlier, even the images are handled separately. Right now, the only thing it really share is: Sure, you can link to pages, but you could do that on an external site as well. As far as I can tell, Discussions is effectively an entirely separate website.
 * 1) user login
 * 2) "automatic" color theme based on the wiki