One click to preview when replying, that would be sweet.

[Yeesh]

As I write to create this new thread, there's a Preview button down there, and lord knows I intend to use it. It's the only way to be sure.

But when I'm replying to a thread, the button has gone missing. In it's place is More Options... And that's great, but 95% of the time the option I want is Preview. I'd use up two page views instead of three in the reply process if Preview were right there instead of a page away.

I searched and noticed that this has been requested in the Theme feedback thread, but maybe it's not a theme issue. Or maybe it's a stupid idea and I'm just too olde to get "with it".

 

[DarkUnderlord]

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/change-more-options-button-to-preview-button.7353/

 

[someone else]

I'm with the old one.

 

[DragoFireheart]

For some reason, that looked like "One dick to preview when replying, that would be sweet".

 

[Yeesh]

I actually wrote it's instead of its. Now I'm unmasked as a fucking retard. AND no one click preview.

I can see how more powerful users might have more options, and so the More Options button is surely handy. But I don't see why you wouldn't want to ALSO have a Preview button right down there at the bottom of this very reply box for us less powerful users. There seems to be space for about ten more buttons next to the lonely two there now. I enjoy the WYSIWYG editor, but alas it's not actually WYSIWYG (in my limited experience this holds true at least for the background to colored text and for videos). So surely I'm not the only previewer out there wasting resources with that extra page view.

Anyway, I only wanted to state my case. Codex's will be done, amen.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

What I'm saying is that basically it's a XenForo thing and I can't do shit about it.

 

[Yeesh]

Oooooh. And this was my one chance to change the world for the better.

 

[Taluntain]

Eh, the whole editor shouldn't be loading with the quick reply box at all. The whole point of the quick reply is that it's there for, uh, QUICK replies. A sentence or three with no extra formatting, which is what 90%+ of the responses are. Anything more extensive is on its own page with a full editor and preview. I don't know whose bright idea was to load the full editor with every page view - that's the real waste of resources here.