Quotes truncate / margin narrowed - due to mobile update?
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in a full width quote box now shows as
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"At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat."
That eats up wikipost real estate and makes it look a little weird, IMO.
I'm slowly reformatting to
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Last edited by JDiver; May 26, 2016 at 11:54 am
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In fairness to IB I've never done quotes on wikiposts, so that might be unique to JDiver. Love Jose, but I'd rather it works for everyone than perhaps a one-off type app. However, if IB can solve both, yeah!
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Last edited by SkiAdcock; May 26, 2016 at 7:04 pm
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It uses double quote boxes and has double margin shrinkage.
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Answer from tech is that the quotes work better on mobile when they are narrower than they used to be. They're set to the max width they can be set to right now without creating formatting havok across the page.
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I will reformat Wikiposts from using quite boxes as I edit them. Ugh.
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So the post above mine, #22, has a large space (like 10 lines) between the word "Quote" and the actual quote. This is in Chrome. However post #16 does not.
In Firefox post #16 also has it, along with post #22.
Is this a different issue?
In Firefox post #16 also has it, along with post #22.
Is this a different issue?
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Unless they fixed it in the wee hours of this morning, I'm not seeing that same issue on my Chrome. See attachment below:
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I only began having the issue a few days ago. It's quite bad for me. I have to scroll to the right to find the box where I can reply as it goes entirely off screen. I use Firefox on a Mac.
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Also, be sure there is not a big photo in the thread where it is happening -- usually it's a large photo somewhere in thread that causes this need to scroll.
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Oh, I get it. If there is an ad, then it makes the quote skip many lines (cause it doesn't resize the text correctly, or at all). If it isn't a quote and there isn't an ad then it just appears normally (the text is just moved to the left of the ad).
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Yes, it's the ads. I know we have to have them, but couldn't we restrict them to just the r.h. margin instead of actually in people's posts?

