Due to the forum restriction (posts only editable within a day!) I do need to answer my own post with a new post:
workaround to get the linkt text to the clipboard is just to press the e-mail icon , let the app start and select/copy from the mail draft, discard the new mail, close mail app and you have it.
Oomph…
Yes, that is right. But imagine I write nonsense in the first post and would like to correct it? Everybody not reading to the end would then follow a ‘devel-su rm -fr /’
But then I would like to link to the corrected post in first post as well. And for that I would need to edit it.Just found that this is done automatically by this forum SW. One point for you.
Furthermore we will then get such posting/quoting/recurring stuff like above
And editing and correcting typos would not be possible (I do hate typos). Even months later I like to correct them…
And, this my fouth edit or so, what I really really hate when we do have a hundreds posts long thread / topic discussing a bug/enhancement/whatever that the solution is buried somewhere in the middle! But I feel like I said this already?
when trying to copy a link from a post into the clipboard for further usage
Did I misunderstand your problem with copying links? If I press&hold a link on sailfish browser, I can choose whether to open it in a new tab, copy the link to clipboard …
@hsjpekka
Ah, language barrier.
I meant the link of a post itself using the link button just beside the heart at the bottom.
link of a post
And again another example why I like posts editable. There is no chance now to correct a small typo / language quirk for other users to understand it better.
Why should we leave obviously ‘wrong’ answers stay wrong and not correct them? Do you (@all and discourse guys) really think it is good that way and we just have (always) to read to the end to get an updated answer in another new post?l?
@peterleinchen I agree with you that the usability of the forum should be better with the sailfish browser. Virtual keyboard hides the text box, for example. An app would be great.
On the other hand, together.jolla.com wasn’t very handy either. But I liked the distinction between comments and answers. And one was able to edit his posts. Btw. just earned an Editor badge. At the end of the description:
“Edit to make your posts even better!”
But back to the link-problem: How about tapping at the browsers address bar, and when it expands to show the favourites, reselect the address (click ones to clear the selection, and press&hold to reselect). Reselecting copies the address to the clipboard. Or press the two circles below a post on the forum.
Yes of course you should be able to correct typos. And remove posts, if they’re wrong or based on a misunderstanding IMO. Repost if that happens. That’s what I meant by ‘sparingly’.
Wiki and summary OPs - like XDA - are clearly useful. (Not so sure about wiki non-OPs. We’ll see how that goes. )
That was an addition to your post, which wasn’t there when I first read it, and did not get notified. A good example of an edit that should not have done after 12 hours IMO.
‘not very handy’ is an understatement. And for some purposes - the very long official release posts, where the question appeared on every page, it was terrible.
Askbot was a Q&A site, like stack exchange. This is a forum.
The answers/comments distinction worked well if people were disciplined, but many answers were just comments. Comments were often just as useful as ‘answers’:
I had to write a browser addon to notify me of new comments because askot didn’t.
Here the notifications work pretty well. (Provided people don’t make major changes to their posts!)
Aaannnd I just found that the adress bar in fact has the correct link to the post at the tip of the screen. Magic?
So discourse SW has worked around that bug!
enable desktop view from the hamburger menu beside your user icon
after edit box is open, swipe the keyboard down, drag the handle to the top (as much as you like)
tap in the box and type some characters, then add many many empty lines by fire-button-pushing ‘return’ (as much as the text begins to flow), drag’n’move the text inside the box to the bottom, tap again on top line and begin to type
Now you are able to see what you type and you can move the already written text up and down…
Remark: this works only in portrait mode, no chance to write in landscape
Oh with quoting/partial quoting it will almost for sure not work, but no issues with crlf from what I’ve seen for now (still hoping 3.4.0 browser update will make it somewhat usable at least, we’ll have to wait and see)
Oh… No idea then, unless you left the browser on search results and it auto-reloaded it triggering that? If search was not involved really not sure (check url next time, ending could give hints on what went wrong)