Young Writers Society

Hey @Birkhoff it's rather strange that you would point me to that link because I kinda 'wrote the book' not the book but the original post. If you look in imhero's signature it says "new profile" and the link will go right to my page, cause well, that's me.

It should be fixed because

1. It's counter intuitive
2. There is no option to make spaces before lines
3. User's would much rather just post then worry about the html code
4. users are now taking screen shots of their heavy formatted poetry
5. Screen shots make it harder to review because the reviewer cannot copy their code to talk about a specific part of the poem

Haha, I see @Monsters.

Aside from that though, there aren't any other options at the moment. And I'd guess time constraints keep it from being optimized.

Do you see a lot of these screen shots? I've only seen one occurance lately, though I'll admit I don't browse the potry section too often.

I'm pretty sure fixing the editor would require either finding/testing/installing a better text editor or building a new one from the ground up, neither of which are trivial tasks. Nate is the only one who can do that stuff and he has been busy with real-world stuff and maintaining the site.

Weirdly enough, I recall testing it and it worked beautifully preserving format and everything. I wish there was a quick fix too, but this issue has already been brought up several times.

@birkoff

Any poem that contains the technique that E.E. Cummings uses(don't know the name) were he spaced the words and lines to help the poem flow will also contain a screen shot usually (or people have to sacrifice or spend hours formatting correctly);

For some examples;
of wedding planning, caterers, congratulations, and ingredients because you're invited to crazy
a mole dream
In Case of Blowout
Axis

(random recent poems, two from @Audy , one from @rhiasofia and one from @Fortis )

@Monsters, we've talked about this before in this thread, and Nate has said that it's on his list, but further down.
If reviewers want to quote a specific part, then by all means, they can copy it out. I quite often do that with prose anyway.

@Auxiira, it doesn't work if the poem is posted as an image. I guess a screenshot could do it but that's a bit too much work.

I'm pretty sure we actually tested it with an e.e. cummings poem and it worked. You're supposed to be able to upload Word documents, but I think it still messes with spacing.

by copy, I mean type (sowwy for the confuddlement >.< )

I tried (and failed) to submit a comment around 4 times. I think it's the £ sign that made it not submit.

For some reason I'm not seeing any notifications. Even when I click "Show Notifications for the Past ___ Days" It still doesn't change. It's not that I just don't have anything going on, because I had a good bit of notifications yesterday and it would have showed up when I looked at yesterday's notifications.

I can't recall seeing these kinds of ads before, so I'm not sure if I am supposed to get them.

If you hover over them, a video starts playing. Real annoying.

I tried submitting an article for the Weekly Writer, but the code didn't work... and I'm sure I used the right code.

CesareBorgia wrote:I tried submitting an article for the Weekly Writer, but the code didn't work... and I'm sure I used the right code.

Hey, Cesare!

I'd love to try to help you out, but I have no idea what code you're talking about. If you could be more specific about the problem, maybe we can find a solution.

Agreed @Birkhoff. I don't know when Google added those, but I've now disabled them.

@Craz (and everyone), I looked into the issue, and it's entirely my fault. A couple days ago I was trying to figure out the cause for the delayed club notifications, and one of the things I tried to do was delete all notifications that were older than a week. But in reviewing what happened, I used the wrong timestamp to delete notifications and ended up removing pretty much all of them. I deeply apologize for my error, and it's something that won't happen again.

@Clarity, aye, the comment posting for the people tab doesn't like a lot of symbols (most notably, the + sign). I tried fixing it a while back, but I generally made things worse with the fix. I agree that it's an annoying bug, and I'll try to get it fixed here soon.

Ah, no problem. XD I'll just take note of not to use symbols...

Me again! Did something new happen with mobile chat? I couldn't enter it on Chrome - it would keep loading and then give me the login screen, telling me I disconnected. Usually reloading solves that, but it just kept happening.

I managed to get in with Safari, though, and apparently Torch is working too.