Search results seem a little odd. For instance, searching for “tutorials” will bring up the question “How do I learn Inform 7?”, but searching for “tutorial” has no results.
Is there a way to get code formatting, or at least enter line breaks instead of paragraph breaks? Would be quite an important feature.
Yes, I’ll take a look at the Markdown plugins as that will be more useful than the WYSIWYG editor. Also there seem to be some syntax highlighting plugins, so I’ll take a look at those too.
If anybody who’s been around this community for a while would like to volunteer to help set things up, let me know and I’ll set you up with admin rights (on either the application or the server itself).
Ah thank you. It was late when I posted that. I’ve added a few and will add a few more.
I’d be keen.
The points awarded for actions are quite different from Stack Exchange. Would anyone be opposed to changing it to basically match Stack Exchange’s system?
I’m happy for the points to match Stack Exchange. I had a first pass at making them a bit more Stack Exchange-like a couple of days ago, as the Q2A defaults were even more different, but it wasn’t something I spent a lot of time on, so I’m happy for it to be tweaked.
Okay, I’ve adjusted them to be much more similar to Stack Exchange, and it does mean that some people’s points are greatly reduced now!
You get:
5 points per upvote on your questions
10 points per upvote on your answers
-2 points per downvote on your questions/answers
2 points when you select an answer on your questions
15 points if an answer of yours gets selected
-1 points for downvoting answers
I’ve been adding non-technical, newbie-type questions to the site (because those are the ones I can most easily answer) along the lines of “Where can I find testers?” and “How do I find games where you can’t die or get stuck?” Are there other simple questions that get asked a lot that people would like to see added?
I feel like there are probably enough seed questions now for the site not to look empty. I think it’s time to promote it in the development boards here.
So how relevant would future seed questions be? Can/should we take it easy? I’m not sure whom to ask about this, but I think a seed question every now and then can be helpful. Though too many of course could push the real questions back.
Still, it’s great to see 2 pages’ worth so far.
I guess my concern with some of the seed questions is that some aren’t that great quality. If it was Stack Exchange (and it’s not, so our voting culture doesn’t need to be exactly the same) some would get downvoted for lack of research, and some would get closed as too opinion based. I’m thinking for example of questions which just point to Emily’s blog.
But some seed questions could be good: a simple but comprehensive guide to adding a new action in Inform 7. Questions like this really don’t need to be asked dozens of times here. Not that the Q&A site will prevent duplicates from being asked, but at least they can be closed.
Someone might review past questions asked here and copy them to the ifanswers site.
–dc
So IFAnswers uses a WYSIWYG editor for posts currently, and I don’t think it supports preformatted text (Like code tags in phpbb). Is there some way to switch to, say, markdown?
I copied a block of code from this forum onto the IFAnswers site and it wound up formatted as code. It was very tetchy, though–everything after it also wound up formatted as code, and the only way I could find to turn it off was to copy a paragraph break from elsewhere in my post and then delete some extraneous stuff. So this wasn’t really a great workaround.
I think they are planning to change the editor.
Yup, a Markdown editor is at the top of my list - I should be able to add it at the weekend (unless Dannii wants to set it up before then).
Syntax highlighting and ``` syntax for code blocks would be great too, though I don’t think Rouge/Pygments supports I7. It shouldn’t be hard to add though.
Pygments 2.0 supports I6, I7, and T3.
It’s I7 support is buggy though. It gets confused about comments with text substitutions in them. Do we know who added the code for it?
But for the Q&A site it’s not like to be a problem cause most code excerpts will be shorter, and not included commented out say phrases.