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neger psykolog

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I'm working on a thread that is long simply because the subject matter is long and detailed. I don't know all the other threads on the site but I'd rather have the OP be as informative as possible with all the information present than to make a half-assed OP and half the information isn't archived/present.

I kind of gathered that XenForo 2 will bring some elements of the wiki into OPs but these are my suggestions anyway...
  • Headers (H1/H2)
    • Adding standardized headers rather than having to manually change font size/bold/underline would make complicated posts a lot more easy for users to do.
    • By this I mean you might have your heading of each section (intro/person A) have Header A which is Bold / size 6 by default. Then your subheading might be Bold / Size 5 by default.
    • It takes a lot of time to format each heading/subheading and having H1/H2 would make things easier
  • Anchors
    • UBB doesn't allow anchors by default but I've seen fairly simple plugins that allow it (its a standard HTML feature). This would allow complex OPs to have a table of contents where users can just click each heading/subheading they're interested in.
    • Also linking directly to a subheading/section of an OP for later posts would be a lot easier rather than just saying "its in the fucking 6000 word OP nigga read it"
The biggest issue is that quote and spoiler have to be used in lieu of a better collapsible table of contents section. Once you mix and match quotes/spoilers and indented bullet points there are huge formatting problems that come along. It pretty much breaks the OP.

The other thing that would be real nice is to have a way to click an image that's already within the editor and choose the presented size (small/medium/large). I see a lot of people pasting giant images (myself included) and once you have an OP with 20+ images its difficult to find the original image and requires a lot of manual formatting and shit.

As Xenforo 2 might take time (I'm guessing the wiki integration would) the biggest feature request I can make is the Headers/Table of Contents/Anchors so that sections of the OP are collapsible in a way which doesn't involve using spoilers or quotes because they cause huge problems.
 
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