User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Drax Cave/@comment-188432-20121214001734

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Drax Cave/@comment-188432-20121214001734 There are some peculiarities about editing in the new forums, and I'd like to assure users that we've already filed a number of bug reports to try and fix them.

Vertical height of input box
If you're typing in the "start a discussion" main text box, it will expand vertically as you type more stuff, allowing you to see the entirety of your post before you publish it. THat's great, and that's how it should be.

However, this same thing does not happen if you're replying to a post. There, the vertical height is always the same, which means you have to do a lot of scrolling to get through your post.

According to BertH, this is a bug, and is the result of the fact that we've disabled the Visual Editor on this wiki. This seems like the kind of thing that Wikia will almost certainly fix, because it's such a clear bug.

Post/Preview buttons randomly unavailable
From time to time, particularly when starting a new thread, the "Post" and "Preview" buttons are greyed out, and therefore unusable. Wikia Staff are completely mystified by this one, because they see it across Wikia, but they can't see a pattern behind it.

The only thing that cures it is apparently simply waiting — and maybe clicking around the "Start a Discussion" box a bit. Eventually, the Preview/Post buttons will be usable.

You can bet this one is a high priority for the Engineering department. The problem is figuring out the pattern. If you notice any sort of pattern at all, please submit a report to Special:Contact/bug.

Autosuggest
It's obviously critical that we get autosuggest back into the forums. It's a bummer trying to figure out the exact name for some of our pages without autosuggest. This isn' a bug, but it does seem to have wide support as a feature request. I wouldn't be surprised to see it come back in the first quarter of 2013. But neither would I be surprised if it didn't.

If you want autosuggest in your forum posting — please, please, please ask for it by submitting a Special:Contact note.

Symbols and accented characters
In the normal editor, we have easy access to MediaWiki:Edittools, a nifty little palate of lots of different characters used in various other languages. Like, crucially, Welsh and French and Spanish and Greek — all of which appear with some regularity in Doctor Who

But this has been taken away in the MiniEditor (yes, that's its official name) used on the Forum. However, I've been told by Staff that it's okay to hack a link to it on the MiniEditor window.

So with this issue, basically we're being told what Wikia won't fix it any time soon, so we have permission to fix it ourselves. I'll certainly give it a try, or talk to people who can, but it'll be a few weeks, probably.