Spoilers in the Forum

xJira

Spoilers would really improve the Forums, because larger images or much text could easily be hidden in a Spoiler. By clicking it, the Spoilers reveal/hide their content.
What do you think?

savaka

Why do you need spoilers? There are no secrets or anything, Scratch isn't a game.

MrFlash67

Nice idea, but maybe it would show:

Collapsed text (show)

? Really terrible mockup.

xJira

savaka wrote:
Why do you need spoilers? There are no secrets or anything, Scratch isn't a game.

It's not about hiding anything! Everybody can see whats inside. Sometimes, images/pictures are just so huge, that the autor might want to put it into a Spoiler to save space and so the post is not endless. Also, it can be used as a stilistic device^^

nXIII

We were (at least I was) thinking of having collapsible quotes, and large quotes would be collapsed by default. Would that work for this?

Last edited by nXIII (Feb. 15, 2013 19:29:29)

ElectricSparx

nXIII wrote:
We were (at least I was) thinking of having collapsible quotes, and large quotes would be collapsed by default. Would that work for this?

Pretty much would work.

MrFlash67

nXIII wrote:
We were (at least I was) thinking of having collapsible quotes, and large quotes would be collapsed by default. Would that work for this?

Like

 [quote=nXIII line]blalalalalallal i fix forum bugs[/quote]

?

nXIII

MrFlash67 wrote:
nXIII wrote:
We were (at least I was) thinking of having collapsible quotes, and large quotes would be collapsed by default. Would that work for this?
Like
 [quote=nXIII line]blalalalalallal i fix forum bugs[/quote] 
?

No—all long(ish) quotes would be collapsed, and all quotes could be toggled open/closed with a click.

Last edited by nXIII (Feb. 16, 2013 22:18:02)

MrFlash67

nXIII wrote:
MrFlash67 wrote:
nXIII wrote:
We were (at least I was) thinking of having collapsible quotes, and large quotes would be collapsed by default. Would that work for this?
Like
 [quote=nXIII line]blalalalalallal i fix forum bugs[/quote] 
?
No—all long(ish) quotes would be collapsed, and all quotes could be toggled open/closed with a click.

But what if I wanted to have a quote closed by default, say some cheat codes for a Show and Tell thread?

nXIII

MrFlash67 wrote:
But what if I wanted to have a quote closed by default, say some cheat codes for a Show and Tell thread?

I suppose we could have a [spoiler] tag that always started out closed.

botcrusher

so it would look like this

Heavy wrote:
i pwn campers like i eat sandvich!

oh noes! it actualy made a quote!

{spoiler}{quote=Heavy} i pwn campers like i eat sandvich! {/quote}{/spoiler}

used fancy brackets so it would'nt input as code

Last edited by botcrusher (Feb. 18, 2013 13:23:38)

nXIII

I think it would just be

[spoiler]Hello, world![/spoiler]
->

▸ Spoiler

[spoiler=Welcome]Hello, world[/spoiler]
->

▸ Welcome

EDIT: Y'know…pretend that those expand when you click them

Last edited by nXIII (Feb. 18, 2013 16:53:16)

MrFlash67

Looking good for BBCode! Could you please implement those, quoting on lofi, and telling you wether they are on or off line next to their posts like on the 1.x forums?

MrFlash67

And editing and code highlighting on lofi? 60 secs just for being on mobile and not able to edit?!?!

kmeemaster

nXIII wrote:
I think it would just be

[spoiler]Hello, world![/spoiler]
->
▸ Spoiler

[spoiler=Welcome]Hello, world[/spoiler]
->
▸ Welcome

EDIT: Y'know…pretend that those expand when you click them

I agree with this! Spoilers would be EPIC

k9lego

Support, as long as you can't have spoilers in spoilers, and if there is a button on the screen to open all spoilers.

savaka

xJira wrote:
savaka wrote:
Why do you need spoilers? There are no secrets or anything, Scratch isn't a game.
It's not about hiding anything! Everybody can see whats inside. Sometimes, images/pictures are just so huge, that the autor might want to put it into a Spoiler to save space and so the post is not endless. Also, it can be used as a stilistic device^^

nXIII wrote:
I think it would just be

[spoiler]Hello, world![/spoiler]
->
▸ Spoiler

[spoiler=Welcome]Hello, world[/spoiler]
->
▸ Welcome

EDIT: Y'know…pretend that those expand when you click them

k9lego wrote:
Support, as long as you can't have spoilers in spoilers, and if there is a button on the screen to open all spoilers.

But if it's not a game with a story, and it's just for big stuff, then it's not spoilers. It's just collapsed text. I agree but I think it should be called collapsed text instead of spoilers.

davidkt

Yeah, good idea.

szogun

Can we have spoiler tags in the forums that allow you to hide writing until clicked?

MeDiaMond

Do you mean a kind of button to flip posts open or closed?

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