forum feature request

Can you please disable, or allow us to configure a setting to hide, all the formatting on forum posts?

Some people post in different fonts, different font sizes, use of bold, different colours or even a different background colour to their text. All of which jars terribly, makes their post inherently less readable and causes me enough distress at times that I just shut that browser tab leaving their post unread.

It feels odd that an autism discussion forum welcomes people creating visual noise. I have no interest in naming anybody, attacking anybody or making demands of them, I just want to be able to read the site without it upsetting me.

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  • Hi

    This formatting will happen when contributors post in text from other applications. As you'll know, if you write a message here, you can't do much more than bold, italics and a few heading sizes, for the reasons you state. We should be able to restrict it further on posting, but it would be good to hear from others as well.

    Anyone who accidentally pastes in formatting, and wants to remove it, should be able to use Format - Clear formatting on the editor menu.

  • it needs to be able to work on a mobile phone though - I already can't see any personal messages using the website on my phone. Please check mobile compatibility if you go forward with the font restriction. I only use the standard headline and body text anyway and so do the people I message.

     @mods, if you are interested I can send you a screen print of how unreadable it looks on my phone. 

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  • it needs to be able to work on a mobile phone though - I already can't see any personal messages using the website on my phone. Please check mobile compatibility if you go forward with the font restriction. I only use the standard headline and body text anyway and so do the people I message.

     @mods, if you are interested I can send you a screen print of how unreadable it looks on my phone. 

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