Posting and Previewing Replies

Usually I get used to changes on TT and thus hold off complaining until I am sure I preferred the old way.

I liked the old way, where when you click on reply, you can see previous posts underneath the message typing-in area. This is really handy to know what you are replying to, and makes it easy to quote various bits from various posts. Currently I have to open a new tab to do this.

And after typing in a post, and previewing it, its handy to know if someone has answered the original question in the meantime, and the old way let us see any new posts to the thread during previewing. This gives us the option to cancel in case we only duplicate what some faster typist posted in the meantime. How it is now, we cant do that, and end up submitting anyway, only to find we have repeated the same infomation as someone else.

I agree, actually, I hate the fact that I can't see the thread when I'm typing my reply.

I 99% support this whinge.

The other 1% says that if you use the "fast reply" function you DO still see the latests posts. Daft thing then is that you can't quote in a fast reply so it doesn't help on that front, it only helps for referring.

me too 'an all! I just noticed this and it "nerves" since as Kza says you now have to open a new window a flick between the two.

I say change it back, change it back reeeeeeeeeeeturn it! (to quote an old woodpecker song)

I agree as well. In fact, I was thinking about commenting too but never got around to it.

I agree 90% with this. I miss not having a quick reference to the posts being replied to.

The 10% lost is 'cause I must on principle disagree with Kza

Yes you can. I'm doing it now.

Yep, I'm with the majority here. Although I love the fast reply button.

Perhaps Editor Bob removed it because it encourages the excessive quoting that he complains about in Use of the "quote" feature.

how? by typing in the code yourself?

Typing [ QUOTE ] [/QUOTE ] isn't that onerous really.

Yes it is. Right Alt key, then 8, then 9. Not as simple as clicking a button.

err showm, can't seem to get this to work. so i press the Right Alt key (is this the ALT Gr key just to the right of the space bar?) then hold it or release it before typing 8 then 9?

Do you have a German keyboard? If not, the [square brackets] are probably somewhere else. For [ that, click the Alt Gr and while holding that, press 8. Release. For ] that, the same procedure but with 9. I find it pain in the butt, but I'm just whinging.

Microsoft's page with bunches of international keyboard equivalents -- the Alt Gr usually produces the same effect as STRG+ALT -- bzw. CTRL+ALT -- the trivia you learn on a rainy afternoon.

Ooh, my lesson for the day. Thanks Gen, you super-mod you!

I'd just like the ability to edit & or delete my own posts...

but then everyone who answered to you would look silly...

you can edit your own posts, just not delete them.