| When you do "quick reply" on a topic, the "submit" button and "cancel" button are way too close together. I rarely hit the wrong one, but that 1 out of 100 times I accidentally do, it's just needlessly frustrating. Does anybody even use the cancel button? Like if you decide not to post something, just refresh the page. Or delete your text. It's a useless feature, that only serves to make the experience of posting on the forum worse. Nothing is more obnoxious than when you put effort into a post, only to have it all completely deleted (with no way of recovery) because your mouse was accidentally 1/2 of a centimeter to the right. Mod Edit: Modified title for clarity and/or easier searching. |
TenshoJul 6, 2017 12:53 AM
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| Don't know I never made a mistake like you, maybe you are rushing things too much. On the other hand I somewhat aggree with the removal since its not serve its purpose completely (it clears the text, but the box remain open). So fix it , remove it or rename it to clear. |
DelenaiNov 4, 2015 4:41 PM
| Just change it into a "preview" button. :D Then I would not have to "copy all", go to the top, click "Post New Reply", paste all - just so I can have a preview feature available. |
| *darn, using my right hand is off-limits for a while. Typing with my left hand only is ... eww.* |
Red_Keys said: Just press Ctrl+Z.Nothing is more obnoxious than when you put effort into a post, only to have it all completely deleted (with no way of recovery) because your mouse was accidentally 1/2 of a centimeter to the right. |
BannoBunka_snork said: +1Just change it into a "preview" button. :D Then I would not have to "copy all", go to the top, click "Post New Reply", paste all - just so I can have a preview feature available. It's annoying to have to go back to the top of the page to get to the "real" post page. And yes, "cancel" is useless. |
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| Agreed. Just take it out completely. |
vivan said: Red_Keys said: Just press Ctrl+Z.Nothing is more obnoxious than when you put effort into a post, only to have it all completely deleted (with no way of recovery) because your mouse was accidentally 1/2 of a centimeter to the right. Ctrl+Z doesn't work on "Quick Reply" box once you click "Cancel." So yes, it's should be replaced or removed entirely. |
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Vindstot said: It works in opera and ff. Doesn't work in chrome.Ctrl+Z doesn't work on "Quick Reply" box once you click "Cancel.". |
| traed suggested something similar about the cancel button afaik and i said on that thread to just prompt the user of a confirmation box on whether the user likes to cancel it or not like when you click the cancel button it will give you this  |
| I made a suggestion that all cancel and delete options should be spaced out from other options http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1434804 Although yeah the cancel button in the quick reply is effectively useless as all it does is delete the text and I doubt anyone even uses it. |
| Wait... the cancel button works? EDIT: Well... what do you know, it does work. |
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vivan said: Vindstot said: It works in opera and ff. Doesn't work in chrome.Ctrl+Z doesn't work on "Quick Reply" box once you click "Cancel.". You may try an extension called Lazarus: Form Recovery |
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vivan said: Vindstot said: It works in opera and ff. Doesn't work in chrome.Ctrl+Z doesn't work on "Quick Reply" box once you click "Cancel.". It actually doesn't work on Opera, just tested again just to be sure. I had the same problem of Op several time so I agree. Either move that button, remove it since it's absolutely useless except provinding you the possibility of making a mistake by clicking on it, or at least ask for a confirmation. |
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Zefyris said: I was talking about real Opera, not that Chrome reskin.It actually doesn't work on Opera, just tested again just to be sure. |
| If you mean Opera 12 that I was liking a lot, too many websites nowadays detect that as a "too old browser" and ask you to change to access the website, so that's not really an option anymore... Also I don't know why but since several months MAL has stopped displaying a lot of embedded pictures when you use that one. So yeah, using that on mal isn't really an option, except if I'm missing something here. |
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Zefyris said: If you mean Opera 12 that I was liking a lot, too many websites nowadays detect that as a "too old browser" and ask you to change to access the website, so that's not really an option anymore... Can't you just fake your user-agent? |
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| I suppose I could since there's that kind of addon for opera , but not sure this will solve the problem with embedded pictures not being displayed though. |
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Zefyris said: I suppose I could since there's that kind of addon for opera , but not sure this will solve the problem with embedded pictures not being displayed though. Maybe it's an issues on MAL's side? Possibly related: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1398311 http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1442995 http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1405746 Also make sure you don't use any proxies, load bursters etc. |
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Serhiyko said: Zefyris said: I suppose I could since there's that kind of addon for opera , but not sure this will solve the problem with embedded pictures not being displayed though. Maybe it's an issues on MAL's side? Possibly related: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1398311 http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1442995 http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1405746 Also make sure you don't use any proxies, load bursters etc. I got over the threads linked, thanks for taking the time to link them. I don't think this is related though. It only does that on opera 12, I don't use anything like that and clearing cache and the like never solved that issue. Tried again to see if with the big changes on MAL's profile the issue was solved, but no. It works on any other browsers I tested but this one. Maybe a doing clean install of Opera 12 could do the trick, I honestly don't remember if I tried that a few months ago when that started. |
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Zefyris said: Not MAL, but photobucket/tinypic (they have same owner). I'm not sure what they're checking (not user agent), but if they don't like your brower - then they refuse to serve an image when using "direct link". If you try to open it - it redirects to page with that image.Also I don't know why but since several months MAL has stopped displaying a lot of embedded pictures when you use that one. There's a solution - it works fine when you use a real direct link - which starts with "o". I wrote a userscript that rewrites all such links which fixed it for me. I have no idea why those two horrible image hosting sites are so popular here - that crap can't even show an image without js. |
vivanNov 6, 2015 11:07 PM
| Interesting info. All the problematic pics seems to indeed come from those two places. I'll see what I can do now that I'm knowing where it's coming from, thanks EDIT : well it seems like the addon to change your user agent doesn't work anymore on Opera 12.17. Which means that changing the user agent is only possible by patching the dll AFAIK, which in return will change the signature and may have the dll quarantined by the antivirus and the like. Counting all the problems needing a workaround, seems to me like Opera 12 is pretty much dead... |
ZefyrisNov 6, 2015 11:34 PM
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| I was / am a fan of REAL Opera myself - not its way dealing with javascript, though. I thought having to reset my notebook some months ago was a good occasion to finally give it up, for Firefox - only to find out ~50% of sites not working properly with my beloved Opera anymore would show the same problems in Firefox. :p but I want to bump the original discussion : Please Do sth. (anything, really) with the cancel button. |
BannoBunka_snorkNov 7, 2015 6:37 AM
| *darn, using my right hand is off-limits for a while. Typing with my left hand only is ... eww.* |
Zefyris said: What? You don't need any addons, just go to opera:config#UserPrefs|CustomUser-AgentEDIT : well it seems like the addon to change your user agent doesn't work anymore on Opera 12.17. Which means that changing the user agent is only possible by patching the dll AFAIK, which in return will change the signature and may have the dll quarantined by the antivirus and the like. Counting all the problems needing a workaround, seems to me like Opera 12 is pretty much dead... |
| Bumping this because while massive design changes to the site have been underway, the most blatant, obvious, and legitimately forum-hindering design flaw hasn't even been acknowledged. |
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| i can see how annoying accidentally hitting "cancel" after writing a long post can be. the cancel button is completely unnecessary. |
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| Why have you not just adblocked the button? |
| Ctrl + Z recovers it for me. |
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| I would also like this. I have made the mistake a couple times and it is quite frustrating. |
| I've never used the button nor accidentally clicked on it. But it seems easy to implement, I see no problem with moving or deleting the button. |
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| There's a button on the forum right beside the "submit" button that deletes your entire post without any way to recover the information. I'm not sure if this is intentional, but I can't help that notice that users who chose to use the "post new reply" feature are safe from the possibility that the mouse gods will decide to destroy their attempt to express their opinion to the community. Sometimes I've even accidentally clicked it thinking it would just close the box like clicking the "quick reply" button again does, but instead I end up losing my work. Usually my posts aren't long or important enough to bother posting in a work document first to avoid this problem, although there already is the feature of "post new reply" so this would be unnecessary. Considering the fact that users can simply go back a page if they decide against replying or just delete their text if they want to start their post from scratch so they button isn't much more than just a troll button. |
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| They could make you click it twice, after you click it once the text would change to "Are you sure?" |
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| I agree, kill the cancel button or ask for a prompt because my internet opinion going poof triggers me. |
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| Yeah it's completely useless. The only thing it can ever do is make you accidentally delete your post when you want to hit the submit button Even if you would want to suddenly delete your post, it's still faster to just do CTRL + A and then Delete rather than moving your mouse down to the cancel button, so there is absolutely no situation where you would ever want to intentionally use it. So its existence is currently wholly a negative thing |
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| Yes, this seems to be a brilliant idea, or maybe have an are you sure response just like the delete button. |
| I am strongly in favour of separating "buttons" with definite functions (no undo) from each other - like even just switching the position for "BBcode" and "Cancel" might prevent most problems. But well, alltogether getting rid of the cancel button in the "quick reply" - it would be fine with me only if it does not mean also removing it from "quick edit", where I found it useful sometimes - maybe these are somehow connected/ the same ? |
| *darn, using my right hand is off-limits for a while. Typing with my left hand only is ... eww.* |
| Change your stupid browser, and move to Firefox. And just press Ctrl + Z when you stupidly clicked cancel button. And heck, "Cancel" button was essential/common to web programming. |
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Rayzer said: Change your stupid browser, and move to Firefox. And just press Ctrl + Z when you stupidly clicked cancel button. And heck, "Cancel" button was essential/common to web programming. thank you, I finally figured out how to undo cancel. But I do suggest giving a "Are you sure" window after clicking cancel. Since maybe not everyone has firefox, or know the hotkey. |
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Rayzer said: or you could just right-click and then click "cancel" from the menu that will shows up..Change your stupid browser, and move to Firefox. And just press Ctrl + Z when you stupidly clicked cancel button. And heck, "Cancel" button was essential/common to web programming. @Mayumi can you please tell me what manga is your avatar from..? |
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malki said: Rayzer said: or you could just right-click and then click "cancel" from the menu that will shows up..Change your stupid browser, and move to Firefox. And just press Ctrl + Z when you stupidly clicked cancel button. And heck, "Cancel" button was essential/common to web programming. What are you even saying? Read the OP please. EDIT: Or you mean "Undo" option? |
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Rayzer said: oh, so it's "Undo"..?malki said: or you could just right-click and then click "cancel" from the menu that will shows up.. What are you even saying? Read the OP please. EDIT: Or you mean "Undo" option? I have Mozilla installed in french ..so I assumed that "annuler" would be "cancel" in Mozilla installed in english.. Mayumi said: don't bather..I just want to now if this pic is from a manga that I could chek out..but thanks anyway..:D@maiki Its an original picture I found in pixiv. If you want the pic I can send it to you. |
malki said: I have Mozilla installed in french ..so I assumed that "annuler" would be "cancel" in Mozilla installed in english.. Oh, that's must be mistranslated. |
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| I support this there has to be something like ''Are you sure?'' |
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| I figure the backspace button works well enough, while also letting you undo. I'm sure most users don't even use the button; favoring backspace instead, and that plenty of users have accidentally hit the button, deleting whatever time they put into that post (could bad for people who have very little time, type slow, and/or have poor memory) This thing btw:  |
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Mkim said: I've had my share of accidental clicks that ruined my posts and I never really the feature used it myself I'd love a removal but I really don't know how many people use it as well, though I also think it's close to none If there's a decent number of people who uses the cancel button, at least make it so a message appears "Are you sure you want to delete this message (Yes/No)" right under the submit cancel and bbcode buttons Not a popup since people can mistake it for the character limit message and not have the options (Yes/No) right under the clickable submit/cancel buttons since a misclick can happen, "Are you sure you want to delete this message" or similar would be lenghty enough to shove the clickable options to the right Right; something like the "delete thread" y/n thing wouldn't be bad. I really can't see its use, when you can use backspace, or simply ignore it if you decide against posting. |
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