I figured I would post a thread regarding 3 slightly helpful tidbits I've come across that I can't seem to find in the site's regular FAQ section.
1st. Perhaps the one that some of you already know pretty well, but some people are still unaware of. The way to hide spoilers in a comment. All you need to do is use (spoiler)text you want to hide(/spoiler). Instead of the parentheses ( ), you want to use brackets [ ].
2nd. Text size. I'm sure most of you know how to change text size the normal way, using the Font Size box just to the left of the color wheel, but if you want to make your text smaller than very small or larger than very large, you'll notice something like this while editing your comment: (size=1.5em)text being altered(/size) Again, I'm just using the ( ) to replace the [ ]. Now for the really giant text you can edit the number after (size= to be whatever you want. I suggest not going higher than 15, though... Um, if you'd like, I'll also let you know my preferred "Quiet Fluttershy" text size. (size=0.55em)
3rd. For anyone who's ever had trouble trying to add a YouTube video to a comment when using a mobile device, that's an easy fix once I figured it out.
Here's a link when I remove that pesky little "m." that took me quite a while to notice (don't forget to also remove the period between "m" and "youtube.com" rather than just the letter "m"): (youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=mNrXMOSkBas)
I hope that at least one of these happened to help some of you.
3607787 I don't remember making this thread sticky. I'm going to unsticky it for now, since I could probably try to update this. I made this thread a while before the spoiler tag was added to the effects bar, so that part is rather redundant now... I've also noticed a couple of other minor things regarding the other two topics here.
4207993 4207995 These were test comments I made using an alt to determine if blocking someone would stop them from commenting on a group post you made. Apparently it doesn't work...
I figured I would post a thread regarding 3 slightly helpful tidbits I've come across that I can't seem to find in the site's regular FAQ section.
1st. Perhaps the one that some of you already know pretty well, but some people are still unaware of. The way to hide spoilers in a comment. All you need to do is use (spoiler)text you want to hide(/spoiler). Instead of the parentheses ( ), you want to use brackets [ ].
2nd. Text size. I'm sure most of you know how to change text size the normal way, using the Font Size box just to the left of the color wheel, but if you want to make your text smaller than very small or larger than very large, you'll notice something like this while editing your comment: (size=1.5em)text being altered(/size) Again, I'm just using the ( ) to replace the [ ]. Now for the really giant text you can edit the number after (size= to be whatever you want. I suggest not going higher than 15, though... Um, if you'd like, I'll also let you know my preferred "Quiet Fluttershy" text size. (size=0.55em)
3rd. For anyone who's ever had trouble trying to add a YouTube video to a comment when using a mobile device, that's an easy fix once I figured it out.
Here's a link from my phone:
(youtube=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrXMOSkBas)
[youtube=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrXMOSkBas]
Here's a link when I remove that pesky little "m." that took me quite a while to notice (don't forget to also remove the period between "m" and "youtube.com" rather than just the letter "m"):
(youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=mNrXMOSkBas)
I hope that at least one of these happened to help some of you.![:twilightsheepish:](https://static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/twilightsheepish.png)
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How have I managed to not see that sooner? Many, many thanks for that link. I cannot express how much I truly appreciate that.
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I'm going to unsticky it for now, since I could probably try to update this. I made this thread a while before the spoiler tag was added to the effects bar, so that part is rather redundant now... I've also noticed a couple of other minor things regarding the other two topics here.
I don't remember making this thread sticky.
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These were test comments I made using an alt to determine if blocking someone would stop them from commenting on a group post you made. Apparently it doesn't work...
4263993 That was me. Although outdated, we don't really have any other help threads on here.
4304428![:twilightsheepish:](https://static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/twilightsheepish.png)
Alright, that makes sense. I'll try to give this an update before too long...
4373191 Oh look, you exist!![:yay:](https://static.fimfiction.net/images/emoticons/yay.png)
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LOL