Make "Please read" post a pop up in new threads

juliohm · February 21, 2022, 11:39am

The post

is quite useful and we are always directing new users to it.

Can Discourse add a warning or pop up whenever a user it typing a new thread?

DNF · February 21, 2022, 2:07pm

If so, it should be mostly for lower trust levels, right? Unless it is relatively unobtrusive.

juliohm · February 21, 2022, 2:08pm

I think we already receive related posts while typing a new post, it could be something similar in a special highlighted area.

rafael.guerra · February 21, 2022, 4:50pm

Having a predefined template with an area for text and an area for code like below would help alleviate the excruciating pain of code that is not pasted inside the triple backticks:

juliohm · February 21, 2022, 8:39pm

That is a tremendous idea @rafael.guerra If not a warning, at least the code snippets would be ok. This is definitely the most painful part.

juliohm · February 24, 2022, 11:01am

Does anyone have the admin rights on Discourse to implement this feature proposed by @rafael.guerra? Perhaps there is a plugin somewhere that we can use? I have no idea how Discourse features work.

Henrique_Becker · February 24, 2022, 1:31pm

You can go to Discourse’s Discourse to ask these questions, XD.

tbeason · February 24, 2022, 1:37pm

A quick search of the discourse on Discourse’s Discourse suggests that there are a couple of ways this type of feature could be implemented.

mbauman · February 24, 2022, 2:32pm

The code-fences thing has been asked before:

and escalated to discourse on Discourse’s Meta Discourse:

I’ve not taken the time to figure out how to hack our custom themes as would be required.