BB code and rich text editing for profile posts and comments
For some communities, profile posts are an essential factor in helping your members to engage with each other. Yet the overall experience in terms of creating this content isn't quite as advanced as, say, standard forum posts. So we thought it was time to change that
Creating profile posts now allows you to use the rich text editor, full BB code (and
Markdown), smilies and everything that comes with it.
Profile post pages can have quite a few editors on the screen at any given time. Trying to initialise all of the rich text editors on page load would be fairly intensive, so we have added a new deferred initialisation so that we only load the editor when you click on it, as demonstrated by the above two screenshots.
Here's a completed profile post with some richer formatting:
You may notice something else slightly different here too. To comment on profile posts you previously had to click a "Comment" link in the profile post action bar.
The main issue with that is if you've got a long list of comments then you would have to scroll up to tap the Comment link. As you can see above we now have a "Write a comment..." input directly below the list of comments. Clicking this, as mentioned above, loads the editor which, again, also supports rich formatting:
In case you prefer the old approach to triggering the comment input, then we still support that too. You would just enable this style property: