Suggestion for new posters who share

11-11-2018, 02:25 PM

Bi0S Wrote: BBCode was introduced in 1998 by the message board software Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) and implemented in Perl. And In 2000 BBCode was used in 2000 phpbb and now is used on almost all old & new forums. So its been around for years. Sorry but to me its normal and dont realize not everyone gets the simplicity of it or how to use it.

I suspect many of the people here probably weren't even born yet in 2000... and what's obvious to some isn't always obvious to all. Case in point, in your imagetelling him that he's blind, you used "your" instead of "you're" which I learned about in grade 2 and I'm pretty sure English grammar's been around for almost as long as BBCode lol

I agree with Fitfattony though, it doesn't have to be anything crazy, maybe just a modal that comes up the first time you create a thread in an applicable section... a short description, a link to the thread mentioned above to find out more and perhaps a "don't show this again" checkbox... could even mention the URL shortener rule in the same modal and kill two birds with one stone.

Faded, you way wish to fix the image in that thread too... anyone needing the "How to use.." section of it won't make sense of"you can use them by writing [Image: uznnbg.png]" ...and, just to be picky, while you're there you could alsoremove that question mark or rephrase it to "How do I.."

Cheers =)