Fix it for me!

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 13:11:22 UTC, Profile Anaysis 
wrote:
> The web interface could use a little work!
>
> 1. Tabs - I know that tabs are designed to move to different 
> elements but you can override the default behavior and make 
> life quite a bit easier for most people(since most people have 
> access to a mouse).

That would be a regression in accessibility. At least, I use tabs 
to navigate website forms.

> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3362/capturing-tab-key-in-text-box

This solution is an ugly kludge. Sorry, but I will not be 
implementing this. I would suggest against using tabs in Internet 
messages anyway, as the way they are displayed highly depends on 
the user agent.

> Instead, put some elements on the page, a few buttons that say 
> things like "fix me" which will reduce the quote like it 
> normally does, but does not require a page reload(which can be 
> a few seconds sometimes and sometimes the site goes down in the 
> middle).

Page load times should be almost always instant. Unfortunately, 
the server the forum is running on has been experiencing high 
load lately, due to it also hosting some D CI systems. I'm 
looking into this.

> Also, the captcha could be added the first time if it is 
> required instead of requiring another page load for it to pop 
> up.

Whether or not a CAPTCHA challenge should be displayed cannot be 
determined before the user submits their post.

> 3. D code highlighting!

Some Markdown formatting is planned for the next major update.

> Oh, and this post: "Your post contains a suspicious keyword or 
> character sequence. Please solve a CAPTCHA to continue."
>
> Did I say a nasty word somewhere? Is someone gonna wash my 
> mouth out with soap?

The suspicious character sequence in your post was:

> [Url]http://forum.dlang.org/newpost/general[/Url]

This syntax does nothing on these forums, but many spammers 
attempt to use it anyway when spamming links to their websites. 
For this reason, it always triggers a CAPTCHA.

> Also, If I get the captcha and get the answer wrong, I get a 
> loop:
>
> Your last post was less than 15 seconds ago. Please wait a few 
> seconds before trying again.

This should now be improved.

> Seems like if one does a valid captcha it should reset and 
> allow the next post to go through without issue.

No, because then someone could write a solver for the CAPTCHAs, 
and be able to flood the forum without any rate restrictions.