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[Val]

That might happen, but if you learnt how to make your links take up less space, there'd be room for them. Use the link button in the toolbar when you edit your signature.

My signature has 6 text links and 3 image links. And there's room for more.

[HansonKerman]

11 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

Because they already take up a lot of space on the pages. 

@cubinator @Deddly and @ManeTI , as for the RSS thread acting up, that's because someone, who is totally not me, screwed up a couple of days ago. This person, who is still not me at all, thought he had fixed it and is embarrassed to learn that he hadn't. He's sorry. 

Well if it wasn't you, who was it? Maybeeeeee...

I dunno.

1 hour ago, Val said:

That might happen, but if you learnt how to make your links take up less space, there'd be room for them. Use the link button in the toolbar when you edit your signature.

My signature has 6 text links and 3 image links. And there's room for more.

Just make them smaller, @The Minmus Derp.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

23 hours ago, HansonKerman said:

How do you put a user quote in a signature? And how do you put a quote from a different thread into a different thread?

As to user quotes, there are three ways:

Way 1 should work, but I haven't tested it. Basically, you want to be in an editor with the quote you want, then grab the entire <blockquote> (or maybe even the <div> one level up) from the element editor, then open your signature editor, and edit the <p> inside the editor from the page source, and paste that in. It's a nuisance, and there's no guarantee it will work.

Way 2 is to click the "quote" button in the sig editor, paste in the appropriate text, and use that. The only problem with that is that it doesn't have the name, date, or link of the actual quote. If you care to fix that you could try to get the unix time, user id, and post id and edit the <blockquote> element by reverse engineering other quote's HTML.

Way 3, and the one I recommend, is to do what I did in my signature: Take a screenshot of the quote, then edit it with an image editor to save space (which isn't possible using the other methods without creating a table, also via HTML editing), and link the image to the post.

Edited August 7, 2018 by Mad Rocket Scientist

[Chel]

Would it be possible to see what the first version of the forum website looked like?

[The Minmus Derp]

9 hours ago, HansonKerman said:

Well if it wasn't you, who was it? Maybeeeeee...

I dunno.

Just make them smaller, @The Minmus Derp.

How do you add a link to a thing of text? for example, I wanna add a link to this: OPM-E

[Chel]

@The Minmus Derp, @Mad Rocket Scientist and @HansonKerman, concerning your things about linking stuff in signatures, you guys should post that stuff in the Forum Test Thread. Not the ATMQATF

[The Minmus Derp]

Okay. I understand. Uh... Linky?

[Chel]

11 minutes ago, The Minmus Derp said:

Okay. I understand. Uh... Linky?

 

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

35 minutes ago, The_Cat_In_Space said:

Would it be possible to see what the first version of the forum website looked like?

Yes, the internet archive has a decent archive of it, especially the parts that were deleted in the software change (because I archived it).

Here's the earliest one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121021002818/http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum.php?s=9f34a5c05565584a31f6fa8dc3a35151

And here's one from right before the update:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151124063713/http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com:80/

I shall not forget the rocket builders. *Sniff*

[Chel]

1 hour ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

I shall not forget the rocket builders. *Sniff*

F to all rocket builders

[HansonKerman]

18 hours ago, The Minmus Derp said:

How do you add a link to a thing of text? for example, I wanna add a link to this: OPM-E

 Let's say I wanted to put a Starbound Wiki page in a Link. Use the link button.  Then, click and paste the URL in the top box.    Then, in the smaller bottom box,   the "Link text" one, put OPM-E inside.

Then press "insert into post", and you have, Human!

Or, in your case, OPM-E.

 

17 hours ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

Yes, the internet archive has a decent archive of it, especially the parts that were deleted in the software change (because I archived it).

Here's the earliest one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121021002818/http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum.php?s=9f34a5c05565584a31f6fa8dc3a35151

And here's one from right before the update:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151124063713/http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com:80/

I shall not forget the rocket builders. *Sniff*

Wow.

F

 

Drastic update.

 

Now I know where this came from:  

Edited August 8, 2018 by HansonKerman

[HansonKerman]

Why are reactions called reactions, when earlier they were called likes? They're the same thing!

[Deddly]

25 minutes ago, HansonKerman said:

Why are reactions called reactions, when earlier they were called likes? They're the same thing!

We all object to that

It came when the forum software was updated. The name change to "reactions" was because the forum software added some other options like "dislike" "haha" etc. and not just "like". We only want "like", though, so "reactions" doesn't make much sense, but it can't be changed.

[HansonKerman]

But in my early days, they were called likes, and I joined after the Forum Overhaul (is is okay if I call it that?).

[Deddly]

2 minutes ago, HansonKerman said:

But in my early days, they were called likes, and I joined after the Forum Overhaul (is is okay if I call it that?).

The forum software that we are currently using has experienced many updates since the Forum Overhaul

[HansonKerman]

Oh, okay.

[Vanamonde]

Before they were called likes they were called rep. Times change. 

[adsii1970]

2 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

Before they were called likes they were called rep. Times change. 

Not saying the forum change was all bad. But there are some features the older software had that I miss. C'est la vie!

[HansonKerman]

I did like seeing @Mad Rocket Scientist's archive.

[Cydonian Monk]

Is it a known issue that searching for "Unity" breaks the forum?

(No, really. I either get a blank page, or every page becomes a "Please wait X seconds before searching again..." page until the timer X expires.)

[linuxgurugamer]

There are too many hits. So the server times  out

[Vanamonde]

1 minute ago, linuxgurugamer said:

There are too many hits. So the server times  out

That is my suspicion. 

[linuxgurugamer]

So, make your query/search more specific 

[Cydonian Monk]

8 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:

So, make your query/search more specific 

Unfortunately it does it for any string including Unity. My original search was for "Unity Asset Store", but it choked on that too. 

Of course now that I've made this post the search works, with the above this here merged post as the top result. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll just blame the DB and move along. (I'd already found what I wanted from an external Google anyway.)

Edited August 10, 2018 by Cydonian Monk

[linuxgurugamer]

That's because it is searching for any of those words.

changeit from "any of my search terms" to "all of my search terms".  You can also click "More options" to do more restrictions.

Here is the search for "Unity Asset Store", looking for all the words:

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/search/&amp;q=unity asset store&amp;search_and_or=and