Just leaving this here.
Oh man, its like the windows 8 of forum layouts.
All the basic and powerful tools Iām aquanted to have been replaced by all this crazy stuff popping out at me!
I can see it working, but it needs more functionality.
LOL LOL LOL
Not being deliberately contrarian: but I do not miss the angry fruit salad of the old forums, with its riot of color and signature blocks. It gave me a headache and made me cranky. Well, crankier.
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I would still prefer some colours, mainly for the DDD threads, just to make skill ranking moreā¦colourful.
Anything specific youād like to see, @teks? If so, Iād love to hear. Weāre taking lots of notes!
Your text is orange to me. Is this a new dev thing? Orange name = orange text?
Nevermind, saw the announcment in the dev tracker thread. Very cool.
Iām not Teks, but I do have suggestions, as one of those who spends a lot of time writing guides here 
I know there are a lot of options with HTML, but I would like more Buttons on that black header over where you write text. We have one for quotes, one for bold, one for italicā¦ all the way to the Emotes.
But there is still room available to put some more, like one to get the underscored text.
Colored text would be VERY nice, and itās pretty much the biggest piece missing from my usual arsenal. Another one for text size would be very nice too, but not necessary.
Oh! and, add emojies with basic symboles (like this one: 
but in a few more colors (letās say all the colors used for gear rarity for example) and the whole alphabet (I believe we only have A and Bā¦ and only in red) and numbers from 0 to 9ā¦ but in more than one color. (and maybe parenthesis, equation signsā¦ something to make clear equations that are easy to break down in a glance.
If colored text is too much of a hassle to implement, this could be a nice alternative.
Honestly, I know NOTHING of either HTML or markdown, but Iām slowly getting the hang of it
It just takes a bit of getting used to. In no time this place is gonna be great.
Iām still putting time into he forums, and donāt have much to add yet. So far its just adapting to how everything is different, which is where I got the windows 8 analogy. So much was changed, and some functionality was removed, but they did get it working out well in the end.
Right now, there just arenāt many formatting buttons. Color, indents, fonts, and centering for example. The rest I can see working out once I get used to it, but wow, initially its pretty confusing.
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[quote=āteks, post:29, topic:1139ā]
Color, indents, fonts
[/quote]backticks (that thing to the left of 1) will create monospace
MONOSPACE! whooo!
> creates a blockquote, which is the closest thing we seem to have to indenting
blockquote!
Color still doesnāt exist, nor does centering.
Why youād need centering or comic-sans is anyoneās guess.
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Iād imagine things like centering and font options, (and most of the formatting requests, actually) would be for the purpose of making guides. In normal, everyday posting, those options arenāt terribly important, but they can make a huge difference in the readability of a guide.
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Disabling whatever is stripping out style=āwhatever: somethingā would certainly do that.
When posts get really long, like with guides and builds. Advanced formatting can be a pretty big deal. Walls of text get ignored, and its so important to make it as easy as possible for readers to find the information they are interested in.
Center text for titles and sub titles really helps separate ideas and sections, and is a good alternative to simply making the text bigger and bigger.
As an example, Look at Derchās Deputy Athena Build.
Here is his old version
Here is his new version
To me, the old version looks better and one of the very very few differences involves the titles, and subtitles not being centered in the new version. If we click and drag the images to the center we can see how it would look like, and I think its a marked improvement.
It just makes the whole piece look so much less cluttered on the right, and makes the work appear much more professional.
Im going to throw my suggestion in here. Spoiler tag button on the options bar.
@joekgbx
The change you made from orange to orange highlight in your text is amazing. Oh the things I would do to have a purple highlight around mine 
(purple rocks)
Oh, it turns out you can do 2nd tier with one preceeding space (before the * or -) and 3rd with 5 spaces.
Looks like Youtube links will become a player automatically.
sup and sub HTML tags work. So do u tags.
Numbered lists and nesting follow the same rules as the dotted ones, but hilariously it doesnāt matter what the number isā¦ As long as itās ā#. itemā
- This was a seven.
- This was 139.
Yes, someone told me of this Easter Egg.
Do you happen to know how I can fix the second blank line between the bullets that appears out of nowhere for no reason?
##Step 1: Go to Concordia * Targeted Challenges * Buy Items of the Day * Buy items with Moonstones * Go in Normal Mode to get the cheapest **Items of the Day** * Sell everything you buy, to get a head start in **Sell Items** * Buy Moxxi drinks...
Like so?
My best advice is to insert the spaces and asterisks (or dashes) yourself, without using the buttons.
Turns out you can do 2nd tier with ONE preceeding space (before the * or -) and 3rd with 5 spaces.
I want a blank line between Buy items with moonstones and Go in Normal mode. Like in the writing box in the picture. Not that it will do much at making it easier to read. Most guides look like boring walls of text now.
Ah, I see. putting /ul at the end of a line will end the list there. Markdown will start a new list at the next - or *, so donāt worry about this breaking anything. It should actually fix it.
`##Step 1: Go to Concordia
- Targeted Challenges
- Buy Items of the Day
- Buy items with Moonstones
##Step 1: Go to Concordia