braaap
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There are some not so obvious features on RetroRides forum that can make using the forum a lot easier. I want to gather some of those "lifehacks" here. Please share and contribute! edit: I mainly use the forum on my pc, occasionally on tablet, but never on my mobile, so my hacks may not work for mobile use! TAGGING ANOTHER USER If You want to drag someones attention to a certain topic, You can tag him. His name will be turned into a link, written in color and bold letters, just like every authors name above any of his posts. To tag someone You type @ before the users name. But: You probably do not want to type a very long user name manually or You are not sure of the correct spelling which is important for a working tag. Or the person has changed his name he used when he first registered. For example HotWire has originally registered as admin. You would have to type @ followed by admin to tag him. Automatically the tag will appear as @ followed by HoTWire. If You type @hotwire, nothing happens. But instead of typing all that You can copy that necessary part out of every post of the person You want to tag. Look:  It's all in there: the @ followed by the original name, just mark, copy and paste it into the answer field! TO BE CONTINUED ... |
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Last Edit: Apr 7, 2023 8:03:59 GMT by braaap
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braaap
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Some other useful features hide in the right lower corner of every of Your posts. Some are obvious: REPLY brings You to the quick answer field at the end of every thread page. It doesn't contain any quotes of a certain answer You want to reply to. QUOTE contains all the text and pictures of the post You clicked Quote in. The quote starts with [ quote ] and ends with [ /quote ]. In the first brackets additional text is given for date and author. Do not write within these quotation brackets, otherwise Your text will appear within the quote! The text and pictures CAN BE PROCESSED ! Several users obviously are not aware of that and do full quotes to add one short comment. This is quite annoying when the quoted post contains let's say 30 pictures that may take some time to load for some users. A few answers later user X wants to thank the OP by quoting his original post as a whole, just to answer thanks for sharing to it. So these 30 pictures will appear again, when simply replying thanks for sharing would have been enough. Later readers will have to scroll down the pics twice and maybe even once or twice more when other people do a full quote again. Ask Rich how often he removes unnecessary full quotes! EDIT allows You to make changes in each of YOUR posts. And then there is that little gear wheel that hides even more options. |
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Last Edit: Apr 7, 2023 7:38:47 GMT by braaap
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If You click on that gear wheel (some here probably never did?) additional functions appear.  SELECT POST helps You when You want to answer to several quotes all in one post. Click Select post in every post You want to quote. In the last of these posts You additionally click on QUOTE. All the selected posts will appear as quotes. If You want to reply to all the posts, just type Your answer below them all. But if You want to reply individually, reply between the quotes, but STAY OUT OF THE QUOTING BRACKETS! If it's only one sentence You want to reply to, delete the rest of the quote to make the post shorter. Eventually remove any pics. To do that, You not necessarily have to delete the whole text containing the picture web adress. Simply change to the Preview button in the lower left corner, there You can delete the pic by simply clicking on it and press delete. To continue writing return to BBCode again.  LINK TO POST gives You the "adress" for only that very post You clicked it in, e.g. when You want to link to that post in another topic. REPORT POST, found some spam, scam, pawn,... report it to the team to have it deleted. DELETE POST, You can delete YOUR OWN posts when You did an unwanted double post or something is no longer needed. You will be asked to confirm before it ultimately disappears. MEMBER, never used it myself, You can start a message conversation or make a donation. BACK TO TOP, useful at the end of a very long page, one click and You get back to the top of the page. |
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Last Edit: Apr 7, 2023 8:03:06 GMT by braaap
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jimi
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The text and pictures CAN BE PROCESSED ! Several users obviously are not aware of that and do full quotes to add one short comment. This is quite annoying when the quoted post contains let's say 30 pictures that may take some time to load for some users. A few answers later user X wants to thank the OP by quoting his original post as a whole, just to answer thanks for sharing to it. So these 30 pictures will appear again, when simply replying thanks for sharing would have been enough. Later readers will have to scroll down the pics twice and maybe even once or twice more when other people do a full quote again. ^^^^^^^^ this, some people do it all the time, it's extremely annoying, especially on a mobile device. Thanks for pointing it out, perhaps some offenders will take note 🤞 |
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Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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jimi
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Two extremely useful features are the Participated and Recent Threads buttons on the top right of the menu bar, unfortunately only visible on the desktop site
Participated gives you a list of links to all the threads you have posted on.
Recent Threads gives you all recently updated threads from all sections of RR.
Also worth noting that the RR picture uploader can only be found on the desktop site, fortunately most mobile browsers have the option to switch to desktop view, I always use that option when I'm on a mobile device, I find it makes posting/editing much easier. 😎
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Last Edit: Apr 7, 2023 15:36:25 GMT by jimi
Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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