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Sorry, I should have been clearer.
Command-Option-Shift-V (discussed on the previous page) is the keyboard shortcut for
Paste and Match Style
The original tip was for removing, not for matching.
Command-Option-Shift-V (discussed on the previous page) is the keyboard shortcut for
Paste and Match Style
The original tip was for removing, not for matching.
It removes the style from where you copied the text, and matches the style of where you are pasting it. Just like any paste of non-formatted text
Sorry, I could have been clearer but I was reluctant to take things off-topic from XenForo.
When Plain Clip is within my workflow, it's there because (amongst other things) it removes formatting/style at the required point in the flow.
At that point I need not wonder whether both Paste and Match Style and its shortcut will be available in all of the apps where I might paste.
When Plain Clip is within my workflow, it's there because (amongst other things) it removes formatting/style at the required point in the flow.
At that point I need not wonder whether both Paste and Match Style and its shortcut will be available in all of the apps where I might paste.
Code:
.messageUserBlock .extraUserInfo{
display: none !important;
}
Minimal (focus on content) …
Hiding/suppressing avatars: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21436986
Hiding/suppressing red arrows: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21455405
Hiding extraUserInfo: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481452
Drawing attention to replies from the opening poster: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481512 and nearby (discussion)
Hiding the user title:
Hiding/suppressing avatars: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21436986
Hiding/suppressing red arrows: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21455405
Hiding extraUserInfo: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481452
Drawing attention to replies from the opening poster: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481512 and nearby (discussion)
Hiding the user title:
Code:
.messageUserBlock .userTitle{
display: none !important;
}To hide the big red "Staff Member" badges (which even I find inconsistent and distracting to the point that I have redone the "Staff Member" designation in this screenshot with a clever bit of JavaScript):
Code:
.userBanner .bannerStaff{
display: none !important;
}A user title is something that's important to members and is a good indicator of how many posts they've made and how long they've been here. It would be the last thing I would hide, except of course the username.
How do I send an email to a member? Didn't the old forum software have an option for a user to allow/not allow receiving emails from other members? So, if someone is willing to accept emails, is it possible to email them with this software? PM was a nice alternative. I find this "Conversation" thing very cumbersome. I would like to see some way to contact members outside a forum itself.
As an alternative you can probably PM a user and ask them for their email address so that you can talk with them over email that way.
Are you saying you don't see the option to start a conversation with some users? If that's the case, as far as I have been able to tell, that's usually either because the user restricts PMs (which would probably mean that the user would restrict email contact as well most likely) or because the user has been suspended/banned (which would also probably mean that an email contact wouldn't be available in that type of situation either).
Yes, I see the option to "start a conversation". Is that what we're calling PM's these days? I don't want to start a dialog, I just want to send them a quick message. Even better, let them email me, or me them, assuming we've allowed that. I tried to start a conversation once, and then couldn't even find it, even under "My Conversations". Why have we complicated such a simple function? As it was, I posted my email address for the other party in an open forum message.
Yes... it is pretty much identical to the old PM system.
If you just click the member's user name in the forum thread you can use "Start a Conversation" to send them a PM. Interestingly, you seem to have PMs disabled?
Well, that's news to me. I'm not trying to be obtuse here, but I just took a tour through my profile and all the options, and I do not see anywhere to disable/enable conversations. Could you point it out to me, please?
As you might be able to discern, I dislike this "conversationalization" of everything. Even the evening news is no longer reported, it has turned into a "conversation". I just want simple one-to-one contact ability, like email, or like PM's used to be.
Overall, I like the look and feel of the new forum software. I think it is a big improvement, and the admins have done a great job of implementing it with minimal disruption. Except for this "conversation" stuff. Fine, if you really want to have a conversation, but how about just a quick message, too?
I believe you should be able to set your conversation options at the bottom of the page at https://forums.macrumors.com/account/privacy (and basically enable it for all members vs. just those who follow you).
As for all the "conversation" stuff, isn't that basically just the name for PM that is used by the current forum software and nothing really beyond that?
Go to that page C DM linked for you and check this box at the bottom and you will be all set.
OK, this is what it *did* look like. I'm not sure how this will display on your monitor, but on mine there is so little contrast between the background and the checkbox, that you cannot even tell there is a checkbox there.
I thought it was enabled by virtue of what appears in the drop-down box, not realizing that there's also a checkbox there I have to check. I've fixed that now.
--thanks
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I suppose it is, if it works like a PM. I haven't been able to try that out yet. Personally, I object to everything being turned into "conversations" today, not just this forum software. Maybe I just an old curmudgeon, but it seems silly to me, compared to what I've understood a conversation to be all my life. Conversations are extended discussions, not just a quick message, or text, or email. Any of those can extend to be an ongoing dialog, true.
I think it's just more of semantics and naming terminology than anything else in many cases. Just like a text or an email can also be called a conversation given that it typically involves some back and forth (and can be short or long).
I first noticed its use with the advent of "social media", like Facebook, Twitter, etc. It's all semantics, true, but the older you get, the harder it is to accept changes in what you've known all your life.
Get off my lawn!!
Revisiting https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481986 above … months ago, whilst troubleshooting Safari, I accidentally lost the code for my preferred script and styles.
I struggled to recreate things for use with Firefox, @redheeler helped me to realise that I was stupidly using Greasemonkey where I should have been using something like Stylish. After identifying an add-on that prevents use of Stylish, I finished the recreation:
I struggled to recreate things for use with Firefox, @redheeler helped me to realise that I was stupidly using Greasemonkey where I should have been using something like Stylish. After identifying an add-on that prevents use of Stylish, I finished the recreation:
@redheeler please, do you have any idea why what's below causes some XenForo sites (not just MacRumors Forums) to behave as described at Endless progress indicator when replying to a topic?
Code:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("macrumors.com") {
/* minimalist style for MacRumors Forums with XenForo */
/* https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481986 */
/* hide 'thread starter' text */
/* http://pastebin.com/axFYa6Kc for a companion script */
.messageUserBlock .threadStarter{
display: none !important;
}
/* hide the red arrows */
/* https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21455405 */
#uix_jumpToFixed{
display: none !important;
}
/* hide userTitle */
/* https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481986 */
.messageUserBlock .userTitle{
display: none !important;
}
/* hide extraUserInfo */
/* https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21481452 */
.messageUserBlock .extraUserInfo{
display: none !important;
}
/* https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/21436986 */
/*hide avatars*/
.avatar img, .avatar .img, .avatarCropper{
display: none !important;
}
/*remove avatar space on thread lists*/
.listBlock.posterAvatar, .discussionList .sectionHeaders dt.posterAvatar{
display: none !important;
}
.discussionListItem .lastPostInfo dd, .discussionListItem .lastPostInfo dt{
margin-right: 0 !important;
}
.discussionListItem .lastPost, .discussionList .sectionHeaders dd.lastPost{
width: 152px !important;
}
/*remove avatar space on search results*/
.search_results .sectionMain .searchResult{
padding: 0 10px 0 0;
}
.search_results .searchResult .main{
border-left: none !important;
}
/*remove avatar space elsewhere*/
.navPopup .listItemText, .xenOverlay.memberCard .userInfo, .previewTooltip .text, .searchResult .main, .event .content, .messageSimple .messageInfo, .memberListItem .member, .alerts .alertText, .lightBox .userText{
margin-left: 0 !important;
}
span.avatar, .sidebar .visitorPanel .avatar{
display: none !important;
}
/*display following and followers on profiles as usernames*/
.avatarHeap .avatar .img{
display: table-cell !important;
background-color: transparent !important;
background-image: none !important;
text-indent: 0 !important;
width: 100% !important;
height: 100% !important;
}
/*fix position of the profile page link in the user menu*/
#AccountMenu .menuHeader .links .fl{
left: 180px !important;
}
/*override for setting an avatar in the user cp*/
.avatarEditor .avatar .img, .AvatarEditor .avatar img, .AvatarEditor .avatarCropper{
display: block !important;
}
}