Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-3032314-20131229091532

I'm looking to make a couple of changes to my wiki's forums. Just to be clear, I'm talking about the new kind of forum, not the old kind of forum. :) My goal is to make these changes visible to everybody, not just myself. Is this permissible, or does it violate Wikia's Terms of Service or customization policy or some other thing?

Anyway, the two changes I want to make seem like they should be pretty simple, which means they'll require pages and pages of JavaScript. Naturally.

First, I'd like to make the "Post a reply" textarea expand vertically beyond nine lines. The current limit makes it harder to write a long response. This was probably deliberate on Wikia's part, because brevity is the new black, but whatever. Anyway, automatic expansion-- like the "Post a new message to the whatever board" textarea --is preferred, but manual expansion would be okay, I guess.

Second, I'd like to make it so that trying to leave a thread when you've written something causes a prompt to appear. Just something simple, like, "If you leave, all of your stuff will be permanently lost forever and ever." That way, people (like me) are less likely to accidentally lose an hour of work.

Thanks for taking the time to read this! 