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Poetry PLEASE

20 years ago

Spike or someone out there - may we have the poetry paste facility reinstalled please.
Happy Christmas
Jan

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martin_z
20 years ago
I've sent a message putting in a request for this today.
janalyn
20 years ago
It appears that "Josh" might be testing the html formatting. If the link to the Suggestions and Comments forum doesn't show up as a link below, go to: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/suggest/msg1210252014169.html?1

Here is a link that might be useful: Suggestions and comments
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martin_z
20 years ago
I've had a reply - I quote:- "Martin, Sorry about that! They've been doing some maintenance this morning -- I'll report it and it should be fixed soon. Thanks for letting us know. Best, Tamara Amey GardenWeb Community Manager " - only, of course, it was more elegantly laid out than that in the email...!!!
ccrdmrbks
20 years ago
mayhaps that's why my html tags weren't working-experiment: Italic bold no-what's up with this now? Martin........help!
ccrdmrbks
20 years ago
okay-used the link and I'm not alone! phew.
martin_z
20 years ago
OK - well, it now works on the test forum, when it didn't before.... So italics and bold working again? Nope!!
martin_z
20 years ago
From the posters who post on RP Comes this heartfelt and passionate plea: When you can't do line-breaks, Then your poetry makes A long line which ain't easy to see! Please, please, give us back our line-breaks. It's the one forum that NEEDS it more than any other. Thanks.
ccrdmrbks
20 years ago
What he said!
biwako_of_abi
20 years ago
Yes, puleeeeeze give us back our line breaks. I was just trying to list a few books and they got crammed together so that an author's name was immediately followed by the title of the next book, and of course, I hadn't entered a comma, and and didn't work, either.
larryp
20 years ago
Haven't been back long after a little sojourn and it may be just my imagination but this blessed place seems much less active than it used to be. Heard several people complaining about the ads here and am now confronted with a huge one covering half the posts as I log on. Now no line breaks, can't paste with any separation from the main body of the post and can't italicise or bold. Frustrating. Is this the reason for the apparent slowdown or is that just a figment of my tortured imagination. Larry
dido1
20 years ago
JUST PUT A POEM UP ON ANOTHER THREAD. WISH I HADN'T BOTHERED TO DO ALL THE TYPING REQUIRED - IT JUST LOOKS LIKE NOTHING AND IS PROBABLY UNREADABLE, BEARING IN MIND THAT POETRY IS HARD ENOUGH TO READ WITHOUT HAVING WILFUL HANDICAPS THROWN UNDERFOOT! I WON'T PUT UP ANY MORE UNTIL I AM ABSOLUTELY SURE THINGS ARE WORKING PROPERLY AGAIN. WHICH COULD BE NEVER, SO FAR AS I CAN SEE.
ccrdmrbks
20 years ago
Larry-the formatting gremlins are fairly recent- a few days or a week at most. We're just all flat out for the holidays, I think-December usually slows down, but we come roaring back with our Christmas books!
ccrdmrbks
20 years ago
Once upon a time The HTML tags and The line breaks And the lovely indentations Were all stolen by the Gardenweb Gremlins But with a little ingenuity and A lot of experimentation done while we Should have been wrapping presents And baking cookies we tried to defeat them! nope. bummer
biwako_of_abi
20 years ago
The peculiar "and and" in my last post is due to the removal of the formating arrow, i, and slash symbols we were using to make titles appear in italics. Grrrrr!
martin_z
20 years ago
I've fired off another email to the person who replied to me. Let's see if we get some response...
sheriz6
20 years ago
I sent an email, too. There's something about not being able to make a paragraph break that makes me feel positively claustrophobic!
carolyn_ky
20 years ago
I sent an e-mail, too. Good grief! What a predicament for an English major who loved (italics)Eats, Shoots and Leaves(end italics).
ccrdmrbks
20 years ago
So Martin-has there been any response to our emails?
martin_z
20 years ago
nope.....(line break) Bit disappointing really.(line break) I'll fire off another one when I return from work.
sheriz6
20 years ago
I sent another message this morning. I'd had no response to my first one. Carolyn, did you get a reply to yours?
sheriz6
20 years ago
FWIW, I got the following message back today from Tamara:........... "I know it's very frustrating -- especially on your type of forum! I've checked every day with our tech department and they are still working on it. Because of the holiday, things have been even slower, so I do apologize. I'm hoping to get a better update today. Once again, I'm sorry for the delay, but I'm sure it will be up and running this week." ............. Here's hoping!!
rouan
20 years ago
Thanks for the update SheriZ6. I,too, sent them a message asking for the page breaks etc. to be reinstalled.
carolyn_ky
20 years ago
No, I didn't get a response, but it looks as if help is on the way.
carolyn_ky
20 years ago
And is anyone else having trouble with the forum being very slow?
ccrdmrbks
20 years ago
pulling up for Rosefolly, but yes, all my sites seem to be slow-I think it's the holidays-all those workers and students NOT at work or school!
twobigdogs
20 years ago
Add me to the list of RPers sending in a request for line breaks, indentations, and HTML tags.....Funny thing I noticed...there seems to be no trouble with the ever-increasing and unbelievably annoying ADS that have shown up.....sigh~~~~~PAM

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