Why doesn't the forum have spoiler boxes?

[Maxwell.]

if we make a tag script, will users without the script just see [spoiler][/spoiler]?

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[Renousim]

what do you mean, its going to be one of the buttons if its added, and everyone will be able to see it

[Maxwell.]

what do you mean, its going to be one of the buttons if its added, and everyone will be able to see it

ah ok i was thinking people would have to put tags in their post containing the spoiler

[Kingdaro]

One thing you could do is make it so the script adds a button to the BBC panel, that adds this text: [color=transparent][spoiler][/spoiler][/color]

That way, those without the script don't see anything (or perhaps some other form of formatting that indicates it's a spoiler rather than just being completely hidden), and for those with the script, the script would simply ignore the "color=transparent" around the spoiler tags and insert the spoiler formatting accordingly.

Somewhat of a broken system but something like this would be pretty cool regardless.

[sir dooble]

Using transparent font colours defeats the point of a spoiler box.
If you can't see it's there how are you going to know to look for it, unless everyone has to add an extra line pointing it out?

I prefer a black-box style spoiler, whereby hovering over it reveals the text underneath.
The everyboty website uses this for it's comments system. See the 4th comment on this image for example.

However, the downside to those is that on most hand-held devices which use touch-screens, like phones and tablets, they don't work properly as there is no cursor to hover over them. Meaning you might have to do something stupid/annoying, like selecting all text and faffing about with copy-pasting, depending on device used.
This issue is very noticable if you go on any of TV Tropes articles for specific movies/tv shows where they use a lot of spoilers, on a tablet.
Furthermore you can't use it for images, which obviously some people would like to be able to do.


Collapsible spoiler boxes are another system that I don't mind, and it would definitely make image-dumps much easier, or can be used in Clan Discussions, Add-Ons, Creativity/Community Projects and other places to help organise OPs and make them more approachable. You can provide additional information, like rules or installation instructions, in a more compact way.

[Zeblote]

We really need those collapsible boxes. It's be much easier to organize a topic if you can hide some stuff away, and only load it when the user wants. Especially large images.

[Aide33]

someone should make a userscript that hides things in spoiler tags

[Zeblote]

someone should make a userscript that hides things in spoiler tags

What's the point? Everyone else will still see the giant ammount of text/images you wanted to hide.

[Renousim]

bump

[QuadStorm]

I could live without it, but this would be a sweet addition to the forum that shouldn't take much time to implement. The userscript method seems like a easy way that we could do it ourselves, but it's always better as a built in feature rather than a custom addition not everyone will have.

[Bacon Pancakes]

This would be good for long signatures, as scrolling down my PMs with KelBlock's long sig in the way is annoying.