How logs should be posted on the forums

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With the release of the dev builds for sponge, I have seen a few people post crash reports and what not on the forums, before we start getting full 1,000 line logs on the forums I think we should add into the rules about posting to a pastebin site.

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gist, or a site that can analyse logs.

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As @ryantheleach said, when posting logs it would be best to use pastebin or a similar service (hastebin, gist, etc.)

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More than anything I’d like this to be in the rules, so that way when people who decide to read them won’t post 1000 line logs or more.

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I think its kinda useless to discuss this :stuck_out_tongue:. Most users will just try sponge. And have a crash, because they haven’t read the docs about how they need to install it. How do you expect that they would have read this thread?
I think its obvious that most users that are used to forums, will use pastebin or gist.

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It would be nice if code boxes had a maximum height and word wrapping would be disabled. Instead, it should display scroll bars.

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Here’s a radical idea. Create a discourse plugin to detect when a log is pasted and suggest to the user to use a paste service (or just dump it to pastebin directly when posted).

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That’s a great idea simon!

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Wait, they do, don’t they?

this is a BB-code style [code] block. word-wrapping is turned off, as you can tell by the fact that this really long line just keeps going
and also
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this is a Markdown-style triple-backtick code block. word-wrapping is turned off, as you can tell by the fact that this really long line just keeps going
Java-mode syntax highlighting is selected by default
and also
if
I
type
a
new
word
on
every
line
eventually
my
text
gets
cut
off
and
is
no
longer
displayed
on
the
page
but
it
does
take
quite
a
while
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Your text takes quite a while to what?

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It takes a while to cut the code box off and make it scrollable :smile: