Forum Tips & Tricks

deanb · December 20, 2010

Now updated for 3.2 version.

So first of all my top new addition, previews.

To get a preview of the initial post and latest post(s) you need to hover over the forum topic to bring up the preview button. Click this icon and the post will expand. A great way to have a check of what the post is about or what has been said since without needing to load the entire thread. The preview only shows the last 2/3 unread posts and only a paragraph or so, no images or such included.

Similar to this there are now hovercards, hover over the username and a pop-up appears giving a brief overview.

The editor has had a bit of a revamp. I've had to "hack" some old elements back in but for the most part it's much the same with two minor differences.

The media button I've had to edit back in, the spoiler button is new, anyone with some photoshop skills feel like crafting a better 16*16 icon break a leg.

Minor change 1 (though this may have been on the old RTE now I think of it) is the list with a bunch of extra options for putting all sorts into your posts.

Minor change 2 - That My Media option will allow you to directly add in your images from the gallery. Though it is a touch different to how it embeds normal images. If we had stuff like Nexus add-on n the storefront n such the My Media would let you add quite a bit more. For now it's just the gallery.

deanb · November 29, 2011

Big new addition, in part because I have a developer key for Twitter due to some stuff on PXOD blog is the ability to log-in via Twitter n a few other things too.

To get set-up go to My Settings on the drop down box up top and then on the Twitter tab.

There will be a sign in button. Sign in, do your thing and it should tie together. You can have it use your Twitter avatar for the forum, your about me, you guys can't set custom backgrounds so that won't/shouldn't work. For those who use the Export Status it works like so:

It only tweets when you check the box (Though it's been a bit funky of late, may need to refresh something somewhere) The tweets that come from the forum will show up on your feed as "Via Press X or Die" like so.

Not interested in Nintendo or Playstation games? Have no fear you can now filter the forum:

In New Content on the side bar there is an option under "Other - Filter by Forum" which brings up this fetching pink box. Click on the forums you want to see and voilà. Probably a nice tip for people who mainly come here for Minecraft.

And last but not least is the new and improved Multi-Quote tool.

Click the multi-quote button on the posts, brings up this little box at the bottom of the screen, until dismissed by either posting or clearing it will follow you around the forum. So you can actually quote someone from one thread, into another, as well as working through several pages of a topic grabbing posts to reply to.