Is there a way to do the same thing for threads that people have authored? I usually bookmark mine so I can go back to them, but others might find this kind of list useful for finding an old thread (or just seeing what kinds of things a user authors).
Yesterday I was looking for an old post of mine that used Marston Bates' book "The Forest and the Sea" and could not find it with the forum search engine.
I then did GOOGLE on "site: Marston Bates" and found it.
I notice that many people have trouble using the msg=, thread= etc links (mostly because they don't take the time to learn it, and for some it is a little to much technasleeze)
I also notice that YouTube proves copy and paste html coding to either link or embed the videos on other sites (cool stuff imho)
I am wondering if you could not provide a "copy link to this message" coding that would provide the dbcode ([msg=-f,t,-m]) to copy and paste?
(sorry inadvertently started a new thread instead of a reply to this one)
Some of us haven't bothered with it because it puts the link in a premade format. I usually prefer to embed links to messages in the text I'm writing. The dBCode doesn't let me do this.
But I'm talking about people that are not familiar with making links and ways to make it more user friendly. You could add a first option (I thought of this just after posting the above) that would make an html link (that could also be used off-site):
code is
I don't know if this would solve Percy's problem with thread and forum number extractions.
I suppose logically you would want just the message link codes with the messages, and have separate link codes in the header for the threads and forums.
You can upload images and resize them to appropriate size, for instance this one was set to 500 pixel width:
What is bad about this implementation is that it generates a random ID for the picture, you can rename it, however this does not change the file name.
You can also manage long links and have them display with titles. This is probably useful for commonly used long urls rather than any you come across, so it may have limited usability.
What would be useful for the pictures would be to have the ability to record the source (ie - website, camera, etc) and time where the image was obtained and have this paste with the picture.
Being able to resize pictures is good because large pictures are memory hungry and take time to load.
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