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[Galadriel55]

Not really a question about the Downs, but couldn't find a better place to put it. Until recent times, I have been happily using Explorer, and whenever I wanted to bold/italicize/underline something of the Downs, I would click control-B/I/U, like you would on Word, and the magical square brackets would pop out. In the past several weeks, however, half the internet stopped working on Explorer, so I was forced to switch to Google Chrome. And what do I find? I happily type along, without looking at my screen, and when I post it turns out that all my bolds and italics are missing! The CTRL shortcut works in emails, but it does not work on the Downs, and it is really annoying me, as now I either have to make use of the mouse or type in the bracket code by hand. Does anyone know if Chrome has a different shortcut that works on the Downs? I think that if it doesn't, I would just have to use Explorer when I want to post.

[Tar-Jêx]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Not really a question about the Downs, but couldn't find a better place to put it. Until recent times, I have been happily using Explorer, and whenever I wanted to bold/italicize/underline something of the Downs, I would click control-B/I/U, like you would on Word, and the magical square brackets would pop out. In the past several weeks, however, half the internet stopped working on Explorer, so I was forced to switch to Google Chrome. And what do I find? I happily type along, without looking at my screen, and when I post it turns out that all my bolds and italics are missing! The CTRL shortcut works in emails, but it does not work on the Downs, and it is really annoying me, as now I either have to make use of the mouse or type in the bracket code by hand. Does anyone know if Chrome has a different shortcut that works on the Downs? I think that if it doesn't, I would just have to use Explorer when I want to post.

I have the same problem, on multiple sites, however, since I never use Explorer, I just assumed it was not programmed into the forum. I don't really find it annoying to use the bracket codes because of how often I use them on other forums, so I'll continue using Chrome.

[Tar-Jêx]

Regarding the forums and subforums, what do we have in place of an 'off topic' area, where we can just spout nonsense, which doesn't necessarily involve Tolkien, or forum games?

There doesn't seem to be a designated crazy place where we can ramble about nonsense.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

Regarding the forums and subforums, what do we have in place of an 'off topic' area, where we can just spout nonsense, which doesn't necessarily involve Tolkien, or forum games?

There doesn't seem to be a designated crazy place where we can ramble about nonsense.

There really isn't such a place here. Although this and the similar 'Orthanc' and 'Mordor' threads can be used to reference pretty much anything, there is no subforum dedicated to non-Tolkien related stuff.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Until recent times, I have been happily using Explorer

It also works on Firefox!

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

Regarding the forums and subforums, what do we have in place of an 'off topic' area, where we can just spout nonsense, which doesn't necessarily involve Tolkien, or forum games?

There doesn't seem to be a designated crazy place where we can ramble about nonsense.

We don't really have an off-topic area - the Assigned to the Shire/Mordor/Orthanc threads on Novices and Newcomers come closest, I think.

edit: xed with Inzil because I shouldn't be posting from work in the first place

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

edit: xed with Inzil because I shouldn't be posting from work in the first place

You think I didn't?

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

You think I didn't?

Hahaha good point! Rather I should have been aware how long it took me to compose the post and have checked if somebody else had posted meanwhile!

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

Regarding the forums and subforums, what do we have in place of an 'off topic' area, where we can just spout nonsense, which doesn't necessarily involve Tolkien, or forum games?

There doesn't seem to be a designated crazy place where we can ramble about nonsense.

This forum has been dedicated solely to discussion of Tolkien; that is one quality which the Barrow Wight insisted upon. Even the werewolf games have been "Tolkienised" or "Middle-earthed". I think that is one quality which differentiated the Downs from other Tolkien forums (fora? ) which waffled away from Tolkien with other topics.

News and information and chit chat--"Site Announcements"--can go in the Barrow Downs forum. http://forum.barrowdowns.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21

And wow, after all the time on Facebook I can still remember how to do links here. Must have spent a fair bit of time here back in the day.

[Galadriel55]

Oooh, another question about Chrome/Downs. I think I clicked something, and so now instead of displaying the whole thread the page has a box at the top with a list of posts, and it only displays the last one (or one of those that I click from the list with all the later posts that quoted it). Does anyone know how to get rid of that and go back to good old-fashioned full threads?