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The topic review is a wonderful feature, allowing you to see previous posts and even quote them while making a post. Unfortunately, it has two shortcomings:
It only displays a limited number of posts, making it more difficult to quote posts beyond the topic review threshold.
It isn't available at all when editing a post, making it more difficult to add a quoted post to your existing post. The lack of this may help encourage people to violate the six-hour bump rule on phpbb.com -- why quote the post, copy the text, close the window, then edit my post and paste the quoted material when I already have the post open as a quote anyway?
So I have two proposals:
Add a more link at the bottom of the topic review which would grab more (or all?) posts. Obviously, do not show the more link if all posts are already shown.
Show the topic review when editing a post. If there are good reasons not to show it by default, at least include a topic review link that displays the topic review. (If you don't want to display all of the posts when that link is clicked, support the more link above.)
Steve
Last edited by Pony99CA on Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Just to point out, the feature is called topic review, not topic preview (no "p" ).
Anyway, I support both of these suggestions. The former will probably need ajax or else the more link will need to be a form button so that when it is clicked you don't lose all your entered post information.
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Pony99CA wrote:It isn't available at all when editing a post, making it more difficult to add a quoted post to your existing post. The lack of this may help encourage people to violate the six-hour bump rule on phpbb.com -- why quote the post, copy the text, close the window, then edit my post and paste the quoted material when I already have the post open as a quote anyway?
I just wanted to create new RFC for this, but found yours, so it is +1 for me.
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