Quick Reply?

LilCinnamon · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:17 pm

I hope this hasnt been suggested before...

Well im suggesting we get a quick reply, its a great PHPBB modification. i think there are 2 versions of it. i say you should get it so we can just reply simple replies without needing to press the button and go to a whole diff page.

what do you guys say?

steet · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:59 am

Actually they are going to add this in the next phpBB version.
But I'm against adding it. This is a forum, not a shout box : you need to think before writing, make paragraphs, write complete sentences, not just a few words.
And as Togo said, it's only one more click.

Adding that would only end up in even more useless messages.

Conay · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:42 am

As steet said.

PHPBB Admin team has announced that phpbb version 3.0.6 WILL have a quick reply box. Here is a statement (from the phpbb website; http://phpbb.com):

phpbb Team wrote:

Yes… Q U I C K R E P L Y. This little thing most want to have and team members do not want to have. Actually i think this has gone a bit too far. In the end users did not ask: “What does the development team think about this”. No, they assumed we are automatically against the idea. Of course we think enabling quick reply does not support serious discussions, but not all want serious discussions. Some may very well want to specifically attract those “thanks!”, “lol” and “yes, i agree” posts.
Well, we will add quick reply as an option. This will be a forum-specific setting and connected to the “can reply to posts” permission. It will only be shown in topics and not used for new topics. The quick reply option will be turned off by default for new forums. Option-wise the quick reply implementation will be a bare-bone text area with no buttons, no options, no smilies. For this the posting page is there – a quick reply feature should be used by people who know how to use BBCode and how to properly format their posts.

And just for the fun of it, I'll just list some of the other features they are going to add:

New CAPTCHA plugins
ATOM Feeds
Cache/ACM plugins
Exempt group leader permissions for groups
Group Management changes for post queue (and others)
PM Reply/Reply to all
Pagination for smilies and icons
Ability to search logs
Ability to delete warnings and keep warnings permanently
And finally PM Reports

Many more features will be added, but for updates please check the phpbb website: http://phpbb.com

Currently they are operating with phpbb 3.0.6 RC2 = http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... f9e7360d8a

Since this will most likely become a feature, I think this topic should be Locked.

Sources: http://www.phpbb.com/, http://www.phpbb.com/blog/2009/07/26/developer-meeting/, http://www.phpbb.com/blog/2009/06/10/phpbb-306-plans/ and http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... f9e7360d8a

steet · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:20 am

Quote:

Since this will most likely become a feature, I think this topic should be Locked.

That doesn't change anything. This will not be activated by default in phpBB, and I will NOT activate it for the reasons stated previously.

Conay · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:49 am

steet wrote:

Quote:

Since this will most likely become a feature, I think this topic should be Locked.

That doesn't change anything. This will not be activated by default in phpBB, and I will NOT activate it for the reasons stated previously.

Then it should be locked anyway.

Conay · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:23 am

Togo wrote:

You're strange... Normally the members of any forum don't like it when a mod locks a topic; on the countrary here on BS a lot of you keep asking that even for topics that should stay open because they can still be intresting, like in this case.

I am strange. But this topic is getting nowhere.

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