Second Day for posts not fitting on the screen
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Second Day for posts not fitting on the screen
So does this annoy others as much as it does me?
Having to scroll across the page just to read a post, and scroll even more to answer it?
There is an easy solution.
If everyone would just bookmark the site www.tinyurl.com
When you want to post a long link or web address, just go to tinyurl, paste the long url into the space and click "create a tiny url", then copy and paste that new tiny one into your post.
We could eliminate these too wide posts if we'd all consider that.
I'm not sure how people are to know about this, but I found out about quite by accident. Hopefully this post will make a few more people aware of it.
Having to scroll across the page just to read a post, and scroll even more to answer it?
There is an easy solution.
If everyone would just bookmark the site www.tinyurl.com
When you want to post a long link or web address, just go to tinyurl, paste the long url into the space and click "create a tiny url", then copy and paste that new tiny one into your post.
We could eliminate these too wide posts if we'd all consider that.
I'm not sure how people are to know about this, but I found out about quite by accident. Hopefully this post will make a few more people aware of it.
#2
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The "tinyurl" site is indeed a blessing for all of the internet-discussion community.
At the moment, the problem here is a thread title that has been posted with a series of words separated by commas but no spaces -- the software apparently treats this as all one word needing its own line. Fortunately, people have had hte sense to not reply to it, and at the moment it has sunk to post #49 so it will soon be out of our way.
At the moment, the problem here is a thread title that has been posted with a series of words separated by commas but no spaces -- the software apparently treats this as all one word needing its own line. Fortunately, people have had hte sense to not reply to it, and at the moment it has sunk to post #49 so it will soon be out of our way.
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I don't want to be mean, but I can't help wishing that people would stop responding to the post that's causing the problem. If the OP would just re-post with some spaces between words, the old one would sink and people could respond to the new one.
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I'm not sure which current post is causing the problem. If I'm not mistaken though one that caused the problem earlier was one that someone actually brought to the top that was two years old. Surely they noticed it was too wide for the screen then, why would they bring it back to cause the problem again?
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And, unfortunately, Coro doesn't seem to get it at all. He's asked for more responses to his post. I understand that the problem is, ultimately, with Fodor's software. But I really wish that Coro would re-post and that folks would stop responding to the current post. I don't think I've ever seen a post cause everything to be out of whack for this long a time.
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