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firebush03 said:
firebush03 said:

(1.) Ability to change text size, font, and color in posts— the "Text Style" options do not work as intended.
(2.) Fix the "Add a Line" feature in the text editor— it doesn't work as expected.
(3.) Either get rid of the feature where all users tagged in a post are notified of every edit to said post OR grant the user the option (in the Settings menu) to disable notifications on edited posts they were tagged in.
(4.) Allow for a "Compact View" mode: Shrink the size of the user icons (i.e. name & profile picture).

(5.) Allow for files e.g. Excel to be displayed normally.

(6.) Allow for greater control over line spacing... like right now. I don't want there to be so much vertical space between lines. I'd like to have the compactness of the first few lines of this post.

Do we know what the cause is behind the inconsistent vertical line spacing on forum posts? Or if there’s any way to mitigate/fix the issue?

Quick Reply uses line breaks, whereas 'Rich Text Reply' (as it sems to be called) creates a new paragraph when you press Enter. Between each paragraph, there's about an empty row's amount of space. For what it's worth, there's a list tool in 'Rich Text Reply' for, uh, lists.

I guess the Shift + Enter trick is nice. I didn't know about that myself.



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There should be an option for users to turn off the “[X] user(s) agree(s).” I see nothing wrong with allowing for an “Agree,” I just personally don’t wanna see it under every post. I think that it’d make for a neat option.



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Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - on 20 February 2026

I don't know if this is for here but ..
There is a bug when you try to post or edit a post lately maybe in the recent 2-3 months. So you edit what you edit in the post, and when you click submit, it refreshes and nothing happens, it returns you back in the edit screen as you haven't done anything. The same goes if you try to post new comment or even a thread .. It's very annoying. Also it's not from my browser or anything like this, I tried from another device and another browser, I get the same issue. I think it has something to do with the server the site is on, since it's happening non stop for some period and then it's gone. Then after a while again it comes back up. And when this happens it's for like 20 or 30 minutes. After that it fixes itself up, but after some time if you try to again post or edit something it's again there.



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XtremeBG said:

I don't know if this is for here but ..
There is a bug when you try to post or edit a post lately maybe in the recent 2-3 months. So you edit what you edit in the post, and when you click submit, it refreshes and nothing happens, it returns you back in the edit screen as you haven't done anything. The same goes if you try to post new comment or even a thread .. It's very annoying. Also it's not from my browser or anything like this, I tried from another device and another browser, I get the same issue. I think it has something to do with the server the site is on, since it's happening non stop for some period and then it's gone. Then after a while again it comes back up. And when this happens it's for like 20 or 30 minutes. After that it fixes itself up, but after some time if you try to again post or edit something it's again there.

These "posts". How many have images involved? Can any regular post/edit post cause the problem - or is it only ones that have images involved/attached?



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Bandorr said:

These "posts". How many have images involved? Can any regular post/edit post cause the problem - or is it only ones that have images involved/attached?

I've encountered this on both, posts without images (even creating new thread without images), and posts with images too.



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Bandorr said:

These "posts". How many have images involved? Can any regular post/edit post cause the problem - or is it only ones that have images involved/attached?

I've encountered the same thing just now. It wasn't because of photos. The thing that happened at the same time I was trying to do an edit, was that the website started to load very slow and get errors. Which means it's because of the servers. Some of the previous times, the same was happening. When I waited a little, maybe 20 minutes, I came back and tried again, and this time the site loaded fast, and the edit was done from the first time. But again was very annoying. This started happening the last 2-3 months. Before that I haven't encountered this at all.



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XtremeBG said:
Bandorr said:

These "posts". How many have images involved? Can any regular post/edit post cause the problem - or is it only ones that have images involved/attached?

I've encountered the same thing just now. It wasn't because of photos. The thing that happened at the same time I was trying to do an edit, was that the website started to load very slow and get errors. Which means it's because of the servers. Some of the previous times, the same was happening. When I waited a little, maybe 20 minutes, I came back and tried again, and this time the site loaded fast, and the edit was done from the first time. But again was very annoying. This started happening the last 2-3 months. Before that I haven't encountered this at all.

I've encountered a similar issue myself with being unable to upload photos to the media library we use for articles or unable to add the banners to articles themselves. It usually starts working after 20-30 minutes. I am guessing this is all related. 

Bandorr has looked into it and he thinks it could be an issue with the upload handler as I got an actual error that popped up.



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Okay, now I'm really having a big issue: Can't even post images anymore. I'll insert a photo, press "Submit," and the page will just refresh with nothing added. Different from XtremeBG's issue in that it's not like my phone/PC is taking super long to load... it just instantly refreshes with the edit not saved.

Edit— Huh. Problem resolved... maybe? Did somebody do something? Or did I just get lucky? I was dealing with this issue all day yesterday and today up until just a second ago.

Last edited by firebush03 - on 01 March 2026