Hannity Community Tips, Tricks, How To’s

WorldWatcher · 2018-05-02T10:48:33.400Z

GWH:

I think you just post the link: (also, this is how you post pictures?)

Inserting Pictures in Discourse - YouTube

You don’t have to post the link to pictures.

Find the picture you want
Right click to open the context menu
“Copy Image”
Go to your post
“Paste”

Someone can check me on this but I THINK it posts a local copy of the image instead of “hot linking” to the picture. (Which, in a rare case, “hot linking” could cause a problem if the source site changes the image but keeps the same link.)

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mxdad · 2018-05-02T12:22:21.911Z

GWH:

Feel free to add to this, but please test your skills in “new forum is a welcome surprise” thread so as not to clutter this one.
https://community.hannity.com/t/new-forum-is-a-welcome-surprise/47/270

Also, if you came from the original forum, pm me or post in the Welcome Surprise thread and I can up your trust level which will allow you more than 15 posts per day.
You may also pm me at the other forum if you need additional assistance.

Quoting:
Click reply button under someone’s post, click hamburger icon top right of reply box, type response at bottom leaving a space between your text and quoted post.

Multiquoting and highlight quoting:

Discourse - How to quote a text - YouTube

Credit @acsirip

Just checking to see how the quote function works

GWH · 2018-05-02T12:41:44.600Z

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I resized it by changing the 333x500 to 150x350. And again at 50x150:

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WuWei · 2018-05-02T14:16:56.838Z

Why does it not pick up who you’re quoting sometimes. Is it a time thing?

WuWei · 2018-05-02T14:17:13.690Z

Let’s see.

Call_me_Ishmael · 2018-05-02T20:19:43.835Z

test
@call_me_ishmael

Samm · 2018-05-28T06:53:09.114Z

GWH:

Switch to dark theme:

The Dark theme is beautiful

sure.

go to Preferences->Interface->Theme

i always try to use dark themes, they are easier for the eyes…

The dark theme is as startling as the default. It would be nice to have a compromise between the two.

SixFoot · 2018-05-28T13:42:12.534Z

Try pink. lol

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Samm · 2018-05-28T19:55:47.107Z

LOL I’m more of a beige kind of guy.

SixFoot · 2018-05-30T16:01:54.302Z

Pink, gray, beige. Meh. The internet can look however you want it to without having to know a thing about coding.

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Airyaman · 2018-05-31T03:27:03.321Z

Sometimes you want to break down quote into sections to address various points. It works rather simply in the old forum, and most other forum software by simply using [quote] and [/quote] to enclosed the various sections. Not so simple as I have discovered. But you can break a quote into sections, just not as easily.

The key is the opening [quote] tag. By itself, it does not seem to do anything. So it needs all of the information to work properly. I will use the opening post as an example.

GWH:

Feel free to add to this, but please test your skills in “new forum is a welcome surprise” thread so as not to clutter this one.
https://community.hannity.com/t/new-forum-is-a-welcome-surprise/47/270

Also, if you came from the original forum, pm me or post in the Welcome Surprise thread and I can up your trust level which will allow you more than 15 posts per day.
You may also pm me at the other forum if you need additional assistance.

Quoting:
Click reply button under someone’s post, click hamburger icon top right of reply box, type response at bottom leaving a space between your text and quoted post.

Multiquoting and highlight quoting:

The original, works fine. What happens then if I try to break it up for using form [quote][/quote] tags? Junk!

GWH:

Feel free to add to this, but please test your skills in “new forum is a welcome surprise” thread so as not to clutter this one.
https://community.hannity.com/t/new-forum-is-a-welcome-surprise/47/270 [/quote]

[quote]Also, if you came from the original forum, pm me or post in the Welcome Surprise thread and I can up your trust level which will allow you more than 15 posts per day.
You may also pm me at the other forum if you need additional assistance.

Quoting:
Click reply button under someone’s post, click hamburger icon top right of reply box, type response at bottom leaving a space between your text and quoted post.

Multiquoting and highlight quoting:

So there seems to be only one way you can accomplish the task of breaking down a quote into multiple parts.

Highlight each part of the original post and click “quote” as needed.

GWH:

Feel free to add to this, but please test your skills in “new forum is a welcome surprise” thread so as not to clutter this one.

Well I already screwed that up with a new thread, but OK. Next section

GWH:

Also, if you came from the original forum, pm me or post in the Welcome Surprise thread and I can up your trust level which will allow you more than 15 posts per day.
You may also pm me at the other forum if you need additional assistance.

Works. Not ideal, but it works.

Grimalken · 2018-06-05T14:22:42.200Z

In these really long threads, how can I jump either to the first post, or the last post?

I’ve just been scrolling up or down, but the scrolling only moves about 12 posts at a time, which makes it insane when you are at post 450, and you are trying to get to post 1, or post 800.

GWH · 2018-06-05T14:40:46.343Z

Click on the post count, it will bring up a jump to box or you can use the slide on the right to scroll.

Grimalken · 2018-06-05T14:46:01.386Z

Okay

Girl_from_Ipanema · 2018-06-06T04:02:19.974Z

Also, too, the date/hrs at the top and bottom are links to the first and last posts, respectively.

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Girl_from_Ipanema · 2018-07-02T04:12:13.189Z

[quote=“Airyaman, post:45, topic:184”]
Sometimes you want to break down quote into sections to address various points. [/quote]

I left the closing quote tag above on the same line as the text for an example. If I had put it on a newline, it would have displayed the text quoted as expected.

some poster:

It works rather simply in the old forum, and most other forum software by simply using [quote] and [/quote] to enclosed the various sections. Not so simple as I have discovered. But you can break a quote into sections, just not as easily.

The key is the opening [quote] tag. By itself, it does not seem to do anything. So it needs all of the information to work properly. I will use the opening post as an example.

If you want to break up a large post into separate quoted sections manually, you just can’t leave the opening or closing quote tags on the same line as text. It doesn’t necessarily need the information.

You can use =xxxxxx to include who or what you’re posting [quote=some poster] is what I used in the first manual quoted section.

Just make sure that you put the opening and closing quote tags on their own lines if you’re splitting a quote manually.

If I were doing a very large post, I might copy the stacked closing and opening tags and then just paste them at each section break. I used () instead of below to prevent execution.
(/quote)
(quote)

It just occurred to me as I pondered why the [quote] tags in the last quoted section wasn’t messing the rest of the quotes up, that the newline requirement is maybe by design so that we can discuss code without using the [code] tags.

Kelby · 2018-07-02T04:30:24.411Z

No edit function?

C’mon, this is the 21st century.

Girl_from_Ipanema · 2018-07-02T04:42:48.965Z

If you type a question mark ? on any page (just while you’re looking at the page), it will bring up a list of shortcuts like the one below:

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Girl_from_Ipanema · 2018-07-02T05:43:55.418Z

Header 1 put - on the line below your header text or #+space before it.

Header 2 put = on the line below your text or ##+space before it.

CaughtInTheMiddle · 2018-07-10T14:40:49.338Z

How do I un-Track a thread?

How can you quickly un-Track a thread

How can you quickly un-Track a thread

How can you quickly un-Track a thread

Are you on a phone or a computer?

both…

On the computer, when in a thread, out to the right you see the scoll bar that has the post #'s listed out. At the bottom of that scroll bar, there is a reply icon, and an icon that is a circle. If the circle is blue, that means you are tracking that thread. Click on it, and a new box will open allowing you to select normal or mute or whatever option you want to change it to.

On your phone, at the very bottom of the screen there is the post count down there that may say 17/200 or whatever, showing which post you’re on. Tap on that box and a new screen will come up allowing you to either select which post you’d like to jump to, and also giving you the option to change your tracking of the thread.

Hope that helps!