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Halfyank
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Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004 - 06:18 AM UTC
Is there a way to preview your post, especially when you use features like putting in name urls or photos, before actually putting them on the fourm? Up to now everytime I put a post up it goes directly to the forum and I have to go back into it to see if I did it right. I'm thinking something like when you edit a post it will show you that post after you edit it an you can see if it's done right.

Sabot
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Posted: Friday, March 26, 2004 - 06:53 AM UTC
Why? You have the ability to edit your post immediately or at anytime. If it doesn't look correct, just edit it until it does. Unlike forums on M-L (for example), once you post there, you cannot change what you wrote.
Halfyank
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Posted: Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 03:38 AM UTC
To be honest with you Sabot, it's only that I feel just a little guilty being the first person to look at my own post. Kind of like I'm trying to inflate the viewership. I'm probably the only person in the world that feels this way. Never mind.

GeneralFailure
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Posted: Sunday, March 28, 2004 - 07:18 AM UTC
many internet forums give a preview of your post before it's actually posted.
I think of that more as a loss of time and a pain in the neck than an advantage.
If you want to change anything, go for the "edit" button.

Just one feature about posting in "edit" mode, that bothers me here, though. It seems you can't use the buttons for url, bold, italics, image, etc... , and you can't click the smileys either. So you have to type the code in full if you want to use those.

::::: is this something that can be fixed ? :::::

Jan
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