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Yeah, it's going to be a rough ride for all us older users, this forum is more for the hip young reddit kind of user who is more interested to earn achievements and gold stars that can be pinned up on the fridge. Lack of formatting options is probably a reflection of the fact most of the younger generation don't know what formatting is :)

This is how I see things all the time, the indicator never matches what is actually there unless I click the page then after it is loaded, refresh it again:

and yet, the previous achievements aren't preserved. 🙄

What's up with quoting?!??? An even more unfortunate dysfunctional atrocity! 🤬

Most forums don't allow deleting of messages only editing, even the old forum you couldn't delete a message I am sure. Editing a message on here ATM tho seems to just cause it to disappear, tho I have read that this is due to the moderation system which I suspect causes any edit to be flagged which is kind of silly, the reason I am not bothering to just edit old posts to add extra info and instead having to spam this forum

Yeah I have to echo this.

I suspect the market is new younger users who don't even understand basic mark-up language and formatting (or even proof reading) of posts and like most of these communities, they have to bow down to the lowest levels of understanding but now in a push to make things "more simplified" and clean we lose a lot of useful functionality, making our volunteering harder to do.

The comments on how this is viewed read to me the same as you reflect, like:

"we know you older guys are more experienced, actually offer more help round here than these kids who just want a fast answer and you guys know how to actually properly format and deliver your information, but we feel because you are important and few, we need to just take these power user features away in favour of the younger kids that don't know how to use them and won't stick round to learn anyway..."

This is diplomatic speak for:

"We have decided to go with this plugin, these are no longer possible, just get use to it"

I almost spat my coffee when I also read "this isn't how it will be forever, things will change over time" since sorry to say guys, the concept of time that NI has is way different to most mortals. We can maybe expect some improvements in 2-7 years perhaps :)

Just as we have to get use to some things changing, the mods will also have to get use/ready for constant feedback/b!tching like this about how a seemingly insignificant and small feature maybe they never understood is rather detrimental now to how we want to interact with users. I fear it's going to drive some of the very experienced and wealth's of knowledge away over some basic things.

Oh, and another issue: no "preview" for a post, would be nice to see if a comment will be blocked or edited for some kind of weird language issue.

Is it true that I had to earn the „10 Comments Badge“ to have access to the PM / DM feature?!

If true, this is a really bad idea if someone needs to contact a mod before doing posts for whatever reason.

It’s hard to tell whether I have already voted for a comment or not. I can hardly see any distinction between my own vote or anybody else’s vote.

Would be nice if the colour of the voting icon (e.g. thumbs up) changed if it contains my vote.

It seems the vote button which contains my vote is blueish grey instead if plain grey. Didn’t see it at first, probably due to dim screen at night.