I donât care about Discourse in general. I care about OGS.
Look and feel could be customized. There is such an evil feature that makes it possible. It is called CSS.
Fair enough. But I donât think OGS devs should spend time removing features that every other Discourse instance has just because you donât like it..
Discourse development moves quickly and trying to customize the site beyond the standard options available would probably require hours of work for every upgrade. And for what? Why should we think that our community is special compared to the ones that are participating in the central development process and making these decisions?
Like that ârich textâ button. You hate it, and personally I prefer raw text too, but isnât it likely that most people prefer to type in editors like that, since thatâs how almost all popular text editors (Word, Google docs, etc.) and Email clients work?
If the OGS website were half as nice as Discourse Iâd be so happy. Youâre complaining about details like placeholders, while when I go to an OGS discussion I often end up on a total disaster of a page like this:
I can type but not see where Iâm typing or what Iâm replying to, and even the normal title/menu bar is missing! So I really donât think the best strategy here is for us to apply our CSS skills to Discourse.
To clarify, Iâm not complaining about anything. Iâm afraid youâre responding to the wrong guy. I happen to think that OGS is awesome in every respect.
FWIW, I participate in a number of other forums of special interest to me, and yes, on mobile and tablet screens, Discourse edit screens are typically weird and messed up. This isnât an OGS thing.
Indeed, I meant to reply to @mikhail.trusfus and must have clicked the wrong âreplyâ button.
Discourse generally works quite well for me on mobile, with all features accessible, so Iâm surprised that you have that impression. I did notice with this latest update that I can no longer pinch-zoom in the text editor though
Thank you for pointing this out.
The standard after the update was the feature being disabled and I just thought that it was just gone and didnât think anything else of it. Glad to see that there is an option to restore it.
The update before it basically broke the functionality of being able to do small inline edits on mobile for me, the text Iâm editing ends up out of the screen.
I guess this is the new version:
Support for auto translations - maybe that can weigh in on the AI conversation.