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Introducing Editor v2: Enhance your Message Editing & Posting experience

alan@ebay
eBay Staff (Alumni)

Editor v2 takes a big step forward in providing community users with a modern message editing experience. Read on to learn about all the message editor improvements.

 

Drag and drop images, videos, and attachments

With Editor v2, you can drag and drop images, videos, and file attachments directly to the message editing pane or as attachments to the post. 

 

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In-line image editing

To reposition, re-size (small, medium, large) and insert a hyperlink for an image, you need only click on the image and choose the appropriate option inline.

 

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Improved emoji support

Emojis are a powerful medium for expressing one’s thoughts and emotions. An emoji such as “👍” can be used to replace the text - “All the Best!” or “Best of Luck!” or “Well Done!”.

 

Editor v2 brings you the Unicode standard set of 2500+ emojis divided across 8 categories. Emojis are supported across both Apple and Windows devices.

 

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Inline link editing

When you click on a link or use the arrow keys to move the cursor over a link in your post, the inline link pop-up menu displays:clipboard_image_0.jpeg

 

From the inline link pop-up menu, you can click:

  • Edit Link: Opens the link editing window where you can change the existing link.
  • Unlink: Removes the link associated with this text.
  • Bare URL: Displays the actual URL of the link instead of the website title. (If the Bare URL is active, this button is disabled and greyed out.)
  • Auto Title: Displays the title of the linked webpage for the link text. (If the Auto Title is active, this button is disabled and greyed out.)
  • Open Link: Opens the linked URL in a new browser tab.

 

Toolbar button optimization and consistency

We made several improvements to the message editing toolbar to optimize it and make it more consistent:

Toolbars across all discussion styles are now consistent and have the same controls. Moreover, the toolbars include many more options that cater to all messaging scenarios.

 

We hope you enjoy using these new features!

Alan - eBay Community Manager


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What fun.

 

Has there been any progress on the longstanding "authentication failure" problem?

 

 

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Just got the red bar and join the community about 5-10 minutes ago.

Everyone has options. Just be sure the best option is right for you.
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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

What fun.

 

Has there been any progress on the longstanding "authentication failure" problem?


We're working on this issue with high-priority. It's proving tricky. Thanks for your patience!  

Alan - eBay Community Manager


If a member's response helped, please give it a Helpful. If you are the author of a thread and a member's response resolved your question, please click "Accept as Solution." More on Accepted Solutions.

Check out the eBay for Business podcast! For your chance to be featured on the show, call in with a question at 888 723-4630!

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alan@ebay wrote:

@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

What fun.

 

Has there been any progress on the longstanding "authentication failure" problem?


We're working on this issue with high-priority. It's proving tricky. Thanks for your patience!  


Hi alan@ebay disable the Take The Survey pop-up, and it's solved. If the page jumps as you're composing a post, it's that pop-up, and the token is trashed.

We have no bahamas today.
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@nobody*s_perfect wrote:

What fun.

 

Has there been any progress on the longstanding "authentication failure" problem?

 

 


Or the constant getting logged off issue?

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I hate to break the bad news, but a lot of people aren't going to realise what all those little icons mean.

 

" instead of the quote word/button for example may not be immediate apparent to your posters (especially the erm...'tenured' ones)

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Well the red warning messages have changed a bit in the past few days.

 

If you type a response, click the post button, and then get a authentication error.  Before you could click on the back button on your mouse or screen and you would return to the posting you were typing.  But now about 35-40% of the time, the post you just typed just disappears, so you have to start all over again.

 

With that said, the authentication errors aren't happening as often as they were, but in some cases are worse because you lose your posting.


mam98031  •  Volunteer Community Member  •  Buyer/Seller since 1999
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When I get that RED warning message, I COPY my reply, just in case clicking on the option to return to my post doesn't work.  That way, I don't have to retype my whole reply in case it disappears.

disneyshopper
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@disneyshopper wrote:

When I get that RED warning message, I COPY my reply, just in case clicking on the option to return to my post doesn't work.  That way, I don't have to retype my whole reply in case it disappears.


Yes, thank you.  But I was just reporting the issue in case Alan wasn't aware.

 

I'm trying to get in the habit of doing as you suggested, it is annoying at best and even more so when I forget.

 

😂


mam98031  •  Volunteer Community Member  •  Buyer/Seller since 1999
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That looks exciting. Hopefully pages will load faster too.
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My experience would be greatly enhanced if I didn't have to sign into the boards every time I turned around today.  👀

 

 

edit:  I tried one of the new emojies and it didn't show up.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Oh, and Alan, I've tried 2 or 3 times using the new emojis but they don't appear on my posts.  I did try different  ones.

 

If it appears, this one should be the eye heart face   😍


mam98031  •  Volunteer Community Member  •  Buyer/Seller since 1999
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@mam98031 wrote:

Oh, and Alan, I've tried 2 or 3 times using the new emojis but they don't appear on my posts.  I did try different  ones.

 

If it appears, this one should be the eye heart face   😍


Looks like a coding issue. Although I don't know what the issue is or how to fix it.  Technically the emojii is there.

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VERY CLEVER !!!


mam98031  •  Volunteer Community Member  •  Buyer/Seller since 1999
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