Quick Reply

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Not sure if this has been mentioned before but a quick reply function would be great. Opinions?

This has definitely been mentioned before (because Ryuji and I brought it up), but it's been so long (months) so it probably wouldn't matter anyways.

I definitely support having a quick reply function to the forum 100%. Reasons being in form of 3 major points:
1. Instead of redirecting the user to the posting.php page, it will open up a small window directly underneath the last post. This saves waiting time for both the redirection to the posting page and back to the thread or forum. In short, it's nice, punctual, and efficient.

2. For users who are not going to respond in with a huge amount of text, images, videos, or links, or anything fancy, this will be perfect. One does not have to waste time traveling between pages to post something mundane or short. Responses like, "Lol, that was funny" or "Thanks for the upload" would be so much easier to type than to go to the posting page and back. (Least for me, with bittorrent running, internet is not as fast as it can be) Also another reason is for those who are currently debating a topic, and this will ensure a rapid response and fluid flow of debate. In fact, this will be perfect for Motemote with all those one-liners I see.

3. From what I remember, the quick reply function had the basic capabilities: editing, deletion of post, html/BBcode support, and the like. For users who are used to posting, they can easily input memorized code into the post with no problem and respond faster and forget. And if you wanted to edit it with more functions located on the posting.php, there should be a link that redirects a user back to the posting page for heavy and prolonged editing.

Anyone else who supports a quick reply function, please support.

I'm sceptical - while it's theoratically a great idea, it sounds more like placing work on our admin only to lift work off the people which are rarely able to come up with more than one-liners. But on the other side, while I don't possess much knowledge on how websites are actually working, wouldn't this result in less page requests and therefore spare the FAKKU server a lot of work?

I'm not too sure if it eases the server, but it would definitely save on the memory/bandwidth for redirection to the posting.php page as well as less time spent. Well, Motemote's probably a good reason for implementing this since most poeple come up with one-liners. If I want to type something long (as long like my posts in the Rules/FAQs suggestion thread), I'd write it on a word document instead.

I support the idea, but I don't want the guys in charge to bother with it if it'd be a lot of work. It's not that important.

So, if it can be done easily, why not?

I've seen it implemented on the first forum I was on, and it worked wonders and totally fine. (then the site went down due to lack of funds because it was a anime direct http download site, right-click save-target-as kind.) Sure it would be more coding, but I think it's really useful and handy tool to have around while posting.

[size=10]Lol, Ryuji, get your ass over here and help support this![/h]

The Quick Reply-function is a standard function on most forums just because it's awesome, so i support this 100%.

My name is Zellgadus and I second this motion.

*Nod

The code is actually fairly easy, I believe it would be in the viewtopic.php file, Jacob could probably implement it in 20 minutes or so, hell I may be wrong but I think it may already be implemented with this version of phpBB, he may just have it disabled, I can't recall.

At the end it's up to them, but yeah, it would be a good function.