The dividing line disappears in the discussion once it is modified.

medelinor

My forum URL is https://foro.arsoporte.com

Hello
Hope you are all well

I would like to point out that the dividing line that is created when editing a post using 3 dashes (___) and which appears in the following image:

disappears as soon as you start editing the post, and if the post includes this dividing line, those lines must be deleted and rewritten again for it to appear.

It may not be a big problem in posts that include one or two separator lines, but it can be a challenge when talking about many separator lines on the post, especially if the post is constantly updated.

Is anyone else facing the same problem, and is there anything I can do to solve it?

Thank you very much

Anomalum45

medelinor
🤔…hmm, for real?
So adding (—) to a post, is what manifests as a full line?
Guessing it’s another one of those annoying markdown things? Ya know, like how adding asterisks at the beginning & end of text makes the text go full retard….as well as all subsequent text too.

😂 Honestly I don’t get why we don’t simply have normal buttons for all that stuff and especially since it’s already an absolute pain in the ass trying to write anything with Flarum’s composer as it is without also having to avoid using anything except plain text due to the likelihood that upon posting we might find a bunch of random shite appears, making a mess of our work.

It is tedious stuff like this which is repelling regular non-technical people from jumping on the Flarum train.

At least now I can avoid using the (—) dashes entirely.
🤣

SKevo

Guys, please keep this discussion on topic. While I appreciate your honest feedback, this is not the correct place to share it, as Flarum devs won’t see it. If you believe that a certain feature should be implemented in core, please suggest it at https://discuss.flarum.org. Since Flarum is supposed to be a minimalistic and extensible software, I understand why such minor features might be left to be added by extensions. For example, there is the “Rich Text” extension that not only avoids the use of Markdown altogether for better composer experience, but also has support for inserting a horizontal line.

Back to the original matter (medelinor), it appears that you are using the Rich Text extension, which expects three dashes (---) instead of three underscores (___) as the horizontal line. Three dashes is also the Markdown convention for horizontal line, while underscores are used for italic text or bold text - so, I believe what happens is that the three underscores disappear because they are not valid markdown, or because it simply wraps an empty string in bold when you edit the post and the rich editor loads its contents from the markdown, as the concatenated underscores cancel each other out.

In conclusion, please use --- instead of ___ for horizontal lines (or click on the “+” button in the editor controls and on the horizontal line icon). If the issue persists, please contact the author of the extension (https://discuss.flarum.org/d/26455)

medelinor

Hi Anomalum45 How are you?

Did you really not know this 🥲 ? Then you have less problem 😜

I have a forum that uses the RTL extension and if you think you are facing difficulty in controlling your forum or errors in some extensions, I invite you to try managing a forum that uses the RTL extension. It is not impossible, but you are limited to a few options

I share these comments here not to complain or grumble 😇, I just believe to myself that I am doing something that can be fixed for the benefit of my forum and other forums.

I believe that if we provide comments about things that do not work or do not work in the way we expect as users of this system, the system will develop more 🤩.

Anomalum45

medelinor

😄Yeah tbh I haven’t the slightest clue what RTL is.

Regardless, I respect what you’re saying about providing feedback.
It’s the same reason I share my frank insights too, irrespective whether my words may or may not be interpreted accurately by others.

medelinor

Anomalum45 RTL is an extension used by Flaroom forums that are written from right to left.

Your way of conveying a good idea is good 😄 , and I respect it, just maybe the translation is not always accurate enough.

Anomalum45

medelinor 😁Thanks.

How come you have to use an extension for RTL?

I don’t know whether or not this works, but I just asked a coding AI and it claims that setting the language meta tag to Arabic would instruct your forum’s user’s browsers to accommodate Arabic appropriately from right to left.

The AI also provided this example code snippet:

<html lang="ar" dir="rtl">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>موقع متعدد اللغات</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>مرحبا بكم في موقعنا متعدد اللغات</h1>
    <p>هذا المحتوى باللغة العربية.</p>
</body>
</html>

medelinor

SKevo Thank You.

Anomalum45

SKevo
Yeah righto mate, no worries aye.

While I’m here, and because it seems entirely wasteful starting a whole new thread for this.
I discovered something earlier that I think you should be made aware of.

You know that little bit of footer branding text on FreeFlarum managed sites….🤭I ahhh, sorta figured out a way to remove it without coughing up a cent.

Now, to be absolutely clear. I have no intention of subverting the branding removal, and if you aren’t already aware I’ve been promoting FreeFlarum on my other sites even after paying for the respective sites branding removal. Whereas this is something I stumbled upon.

Basically I was experimenting with some codes earlier on a fresh test site which I haven’t yet gotten around to legitimately removing the branding from.

After starting a few tests I popped out the front to check the results, to find—low and behold— the FreeFlarum footer branding had completely vanished.

So I began removing codes until the branding reappeared and also played around with it to see what happens, then did a little digging and also used a crappy Android web dev app to inspect the footer branding itself, which is where I found the following snippet.

<p style="text-align: center; padding: 5px 0; line-height: 1.4rem;">
    Powered by: <a href="https://freeflarum.com/">FreeFlarum</a>.<br>
    (<a href="https://freeflarum.com/donate">remove this footer</a>)
</p>
<style id="STYLE_EI" type="text/css">
    * {outline: 2px dashed #8AA9B8; outline-offset: -2px;}
</style>

😄So yeah nah, it turns out simply setting a { } & p { } to display: none; = 💥POOF!💨 she gone bro.