Topic: Ideas for the site

@Fizza yeah, we're going to try and add more stores in the near future. Thanks!

@antdickens
Forum search scenario excludes results: bug or as designed?

If you're in a thread and decide you want to search the forum, that thread's subject filters are automatically applied without you selecting them, which prevents you from searching the whole forum. I think I've seen instances where duplicate topics were created because users searched before making a thread(👍👍🌈), but failed to find existing threads with their search, because of this unintended filtering.

Example: A user in a Wii U thread, can't find Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch) because Switch results were excluded from their search. Open this thread, then search "Mario Kart, and you'll never find Mario Kart 8 Deluxe(Switch), because all other consoles are filtered out:
https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/wii-u/mario_kart_81?start...

Example: If you search "mario kart" from a 3ds thread, all other consoles would be filtered out of your search results.
3ds thread: https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/3ds/3ds_friend_codes13?st...

@WoomyNNYes do you mean because the “specific forum” is pre selected?

Personally I think it’s fairly common behaviour to search within the specific forum by default, rather than all forums. The user can choose which forums they want to search when using this tool.

What do you think?

@antdickens Yes, if you are in a thread, then hit the search button, the forum search filters will be pre selected (determined by the thread you were just in). I mainly wanted to make sure it wasn't a bug. I think you answered the question. Thanks.

(My knowledge with how average forums work is low.😁)

@WoomyNNYes oh, yeah it’s definitely intentional and not a bug! 🤓

Is it possible to put spoiler tags over images? I haven't seen anyone do this before but if it is possible could someone let me know how to do it for future reference? 😅

@CactusMan Thanks! I guess it isn't a thing on this site 😅

@antdickens Maybe this is something that could be added in the future? 🤔

@Vortexeo @CactusMan done!

@antdickens I thought it was always a thing actually, thanks for adding it!

@Snatcher it was a thing, but it wouldn't work when wrapping around images as inline text — it handles that too now.

How to hide the image with spoiler tag?

@Anti-Matter same as before [ spoiler ] [ img ]http...[ /img ] [ /spoiler ] (without the spaces).

@antdickens
Gotcha. 🙂

@antdickens Awesome! Thank you so much!

I'm sorry if this is too off topic y'all, but can someone explain why there was a TON of comments removed or deleted on the recent switch sports article?

@NikHogan In short: a **** ton of flaming.

@NikHogan
It was my fault by starting the 1st comment with my complain about lack of Boxing and other sports in Switch Sports (my ideal should be at least 12 different sports in Switch Sports, just like Wii Sports Resort), then the article became so derailed because of my comment. 😔

So there’s not really a way to completely stop getting emails from NL. You can tell it to not email you if you get mentioned or quoted, but if you follow a thread, there’s no way to turn those emails off. That’s something I find a bit annoying…

@BabyYoda71 the watch thread feature was originally added so that it sent emails whenever there was a new post, are you saying you’d want to watch a thread but not get updated when it changes?

I think there should be an option near the top of the thread to unwatch it