New Thread Experience Feedback - Official Thread

Currently this would need to be typed manually using {spoiler}content{/spoiler} - you'll need to replace the { and } with [ and ] though!

In terms of being able to do this using the text editor like on the previous thread experience, this is a feature we're still working on which should be added in the near future

Hmmm... Has the "upgrade" broken the [noparse] tag?

At the moment there isn't full bbcode support, no - that will be brought in soon though

So, first impressions are this is screamingly awful.
So much wasted space / advert spam.
Slow as heck. I can see icons appearing one by one.
You've broken Tex - literally thousands of posts in the maths forum are now unintelligible.
You've broken the noparse tag.

Ah, TSR supports latex using both text and latex tags - it looks like the tex variation must have been missed, we currently support it using latex, but I'll pop an fix in the next update for tex too

Would you be able to clarify what you mean about the quotes, please? It shouldn't be including quotes within a post you're quoting

Also broken:

(as used widely in almost every TSR "how to" guide. Most notably https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5971356 (the welcome lounge "A Guide To TSR").

Ah, TSR supports latex using both text and latex tags - it looks like the tex variation must have been missed, we currently support it using latex, but I'll pop an fix in the next update for tex too

Just seeing what other people are saying about quotes leads me to notice I can't get back to the "raw text" (would have been BBCode).

When helping people with long queries, being able to edit what you're quoting is essential. It's common for a reply to be a page long and I just want to reply to one point of a couple of lines.

[I'm also going to add some LaTeX here and see what happens...

$\displaystyle \dfrac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$ ]

Another thing I noticed when submitting the above post:



Don't get me wrong, it's way faster and to be honest - I even quite like the look and feel, but there are several experience breaking elements of this that makes me feel like this was not ready for a site-wide (or at least, progressive) rollout. Moving from a fully-featured experience to what is an MVP is not an upgrade to most users, though I understand and agree the work is necessary and will be worth it in the end.

Just seeing what other people are saying about quotes leads me to notice I can't get back to the "raw text" (would have been BBCode).

When helping people with long queries, being able to edit what you're quoting is essential. It's common for a reply to be a page long and I just want to reply to one point of a couple of lines.

[I'm also going to add some LaTeX here and see what happens...

$\displaystyle \dfrac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$ ]

I think our Toad-shaped friend has mentioned this a couple of times, but I am never filling this out, I used to get some reprieve from it using showthread1 and 2, but I'm seeing this much more frequently to the point I've ad blocked it out - very frustrating

So, when I reply to myself, I can't access the LaTeX source I'm quoting (or, indeed, see more than one line of what I'm quoting). Being able to do this is necessary when replying to complex queries.

Thanks for all the really detailed feedback. We are collating everything in this thread and working through it so it's all useful.

As you've mentioned by moving over to this new experience we can collect feedback much quicker and also make improvements faster than we would have been able to in the past.

I'm looking forward to sharing details of these improvements with you all soon.