Website Tips - How to use BBF

SLC_96 · 2025-02-20T01:36:12+00:00

This website uses different terminology than you may be used to. Some websites may use the term, forums, here we call them tags. Similarly, other websites may use something called threads, here they are called discussions. You can add your favorite Tags to “My tags” for easy access. You can dismiss most stickies by marking them as read. You can’t dismiss super-stickies. Click on the unread indicator from a list of discussions to mark as read. You can hide all discussions with a particular tag. This way they won't appear on /all view. You can ignore individual discussions. You won’t be notified about them, and you won’t see them in your discussion list. When viewing a discussion, press the triangle next to Following, then choose Ignoring Notification Overload – Check the settings page to make sure you don’t get overloaded with notifications. Many people like to disable these: (1) Someone creates a discussion in a tag I'm following (2) Someone posts in a tag I'm following. You can search within a discussion by clicking on the down arrow next to the reply button. Hover over a user avatar to read their bio. You can reply with an inline quote by selecting the text you want to quote, then press quote. Pick an emoji by pressing : then type the name of the desired emoji. Ignore the regional_indicator lines, just keep typing the name of the emoji you want. To get a permalink to a post, click on the date of the post.

OverBurn

I’m posting in here because I can’t seem to start a thread. Not sure what’s going wrong. Maybe I’m overlooking something stupid.

When I hit the “Post Discussion” button. I get a red X in the left hand lower part of the screen, no message. And then nothing happens.
I was trying to post a new thread in Software.

broknsymetry

Did you give the thread a title? Do you include an image in the post? The image could be too large. https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/4077-cant-upload-images/18

vaxvms

There’s also a limit to the number of characters in the title. Too long and it won’t post.

Donoreo

vaxvms There’s also a limit to the number of characters in the title. Too long and it won’t post.

Should the entry field not stop at the limit? If not, WTF? A simple thing for programmers to do.

OverBurn

vaxvms

That’s the ticket. The title was to long. It just won’t post. No explanation just a red X in the corner.

That doesn’t seen right.

broknsymetry

Donoreo A simple thing for competent programmers to do.

Donoreo

broknsymetry A simple thing for competent programmers to do.

Right. Anything that has a DB field limit should also have a UI limit, no exceptions.

GrumpyCanadian

Donoreo You mean you didn’t like the old password fields that allowed you to type an arbitrarily long password, but only used the first 8 characters? How about those that would then complain about an incorrect password when you typed characters beyond the first 8 (correct or not), because only 8 had been stored?

broknsymetry

Also, as previously discussed, error messages should give some indication of the issue.

vaxvms

GrumpyCanadian Looong ago when ATMs were new, the bank I had said the PIN could be 6 (or was it 8) digits. Turns out it only used the first 4 digits.

Donoreo

GrumpyCanadian I did not know about that. So many things still make me wonder why we are on this platform.

DWDM

I appreciate this post as it put us even closer to having a place where we can pick up where DSLR left off.

Nice work!👍👍

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