Forum submit button UX

[Fraida Fund]

This is a minor detail, but it bothers me that the “submit” button in the forum is gray until you mouse over it. The longstanding UI convention is that a gray button is disabled. I keep assuming that it is disabled, and looking for a required field I may have missed or something to enable the “submit” button…

[Fraida Fund]

Also, both today (on this post) and yesterday, when I create a new topic on this forum, it takes a long time to load and then times out with nginx error 504 Gateway Time-out. (It does still create the topic.)

[Fraida Fund]

FYI – the 504 Gateway Time-out error is still happening for me when I create a new topic on this forum.

[yoursunny]

It’s very difficult to write/share code snippets on this forum. Python indentation is always messed up.

Maybe operator should switch to a different forum software? Vanilla and Discourse have better UX.

[Ilya Baldin]

Fraida,

504 error is a known issue, we are looking into it. There is an internal support ticket opened for it.

[Ilya Baldin]

@yoursunny,

Thank you we will look to  see if this forum software can be tweaked to better support code snippets. As a workaround you can use github gists and link them into messages.

[Yaxue Guo]

I just enabled BBCodes in the forum content editor and this is a test reply to try various tag options that BBCodes support. (BBCode tags reference).

Code Snippet

status, advertised_topology = slice_manager.resources()

print(f"Status: {status}")
if status == Status.OK:
    print(f"Toplogy: {advertised_topology}")
else:
    print(f"Error: {advertised_topology}")

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Link to an existing forum topic by id
https://learn.fabric-testbed.net/forums/topic/quick-start-guide/

[yoursunny]

Can you enable Markdown too?
Both GitHub and Jupyter have Markdown, so more developers are already familiar with it.

[Yaxue Guo]

Hi, this forum is powered by the plugin bbPress and we use another plugin GD bbPress Toolbox to support the Code Snippet requirements in this topic/ reply editor, which currently only supports BBCodes but not markdown yet.

The good news is that there will be markdown support in the upcoming 7.0 version per the developer of GD bbPress Toolbox.

[Yaxue Guo]

This is a test reply with TinyMCE Rich Editor and use BBCodes for content formatting as well.

Code Snippet (using BBCodes “scode” tag)

status, advertised_topology = slice_manager.resources()

print(f"Status: {status}")
if status == Status.OK:
print(f"Toplogy: {advertised_topology}")
else:
print(f"Error: {advertised_topology}")

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Item List/ Text Color/ Strikethrough (using TinyMCE editor toolbar)

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

 

 

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Yaxue Guo.

[Ilya Baldin]

Here is how to use the “scode” tag:

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[Ilya Baldin]

This is a piece of python code:

def __init__(self):
    super().__init__()
    self.network_service_info = None

def set_network_service_info(self, ns_info: NetworkServiceInfo):
    self.network_service_info = ns_info

And this is without the tag:

def __init__(self):
    super().__init__()
    self.network_service_info = None

def set_network_service_info(self, ns_info: NetworkServiceInfo):
    self.network_service_info = ns_info

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Ilya Baldin.
• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Ilya Baldin.
• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Ilya Baldin.
• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Ilya Baldin.
• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Yaxue Guo.

[Yaxue Guo]

Test reply with Ilya’s code:

def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.network_service_info = None

def set_network_service_info(self, ns_info: NetworkServiceInfo):
self.network_service_info = ns_info

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Yaxue Guo.

[yoursunny]

I see indentation errors in the two snippets above.

Also, there’s no Preview button so that it’s impossible to know whether my content would render correctly before publishing.

[Ilya Baldin]

Yaxue and I are discussing it – this is unfortunately an imperfect solution. A simple cut-and-paste actually works preserving indentation, but doesn’t offer syntax highlighting or line numbers. scode tag does, but requires some manipulations to work correctly.

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Ilya Baldin.

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