Any chance we could get the forum software updated to something more in line with modern forums? The editor is woefully inadequate.
One obvious problem I have spotted is that it seems to strip out HTML(like) stuff. A reasonable security procedure for sure (although most forums allow you to use a few basic HTML tags), but it’s a big problem when you have a code intensive forum as I hope this one will be. For instance I recently posted a big chunk of code over in the Projects forum. The code was fairly well documented including a bunch of XML Comments (a great feature of C#). Because it’s XML, it includes a bunch of stuff in <…> style, which then gets removed, and breaks stuff.
The idea behind the forum is to remain simple. We have smilies, quotes, and C# code formatting. With so little options, I’m not sure I see a reason for a more complex solution. I have taken into account what you mentioned about XML and HTML. I chose to convert both into visible tags so your comments will remain.
Bold?
/// <example>
/// <code>
/// // Example code to use this class.
/// </code>
/// </example>
Since it looks like [code is just a stylization for pre, you might just put something in to convert the HTML symbols back to real ASCII. I guess the trouble with that is about how you would deal with pre in the code.
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He fixes the problem and then tells you there is not problem…then you scratching your head trying to figure out how it was fixed on its own!