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Spoiler functionality not working? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/boostforlemmy

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Hi all,

When I create a new post or comment there are buttons for different formatting options (bold, italic, hyperlink, ...) right above the on-screen keyboard. One of the buttons is a little circle with an exclamation mark that is called spoiler.

If I click on it, it adds three colons followed by 'spoiler spoiler' and then at the end again three colons. But after I publish the post or comment, I don't see any effect or special formatting of my text. It's just the text and that non-functional tags.

Is that a bug or is that how it's meant to work?

spoiler

This is a spoiler in my main post

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[–] Kelly 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Is that a bug or is that how it's meant to work?

Its a bug. Lemmy spoiler rendering hasn't been implemented yet.

Its been a while, and the dev must be aware but seems to have prioritised other features so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The dev has prioritized things other than this app entirely, it seems, because there haven't been any updates in nearly four months. That's a bit long for an immature app like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks, should have researched myself before creating yet another post for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Running Voyager and the spoiler in your post as well as someone’s comment spoiler render just fine. I see a “Spoiler” collapsible section that hides it.

Just wanted to help clarify that it’s a boost thing and not a Lemmy thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

This is how it looks on my end with Boost:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

This was brought up recently about Eternity, which was also originally a Reddit client. Eternity currently only supports Reddit-style spoilers, not Lemmy-style spoilers. How do these spoilers look to you?

Reddit-style:

>!I use Thunder now!<

!I use Thunder now!<

Lemmy-style:

SpoilerI use Thunder now

Spoiler

I use Thunder now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They look like a quote rather than a spoiler.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Interesting. So, not the exact same scenario as Eternity, as Eternity currently does render the Reddit-style spoiler as a spoiler instead of as a quote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Test for a spoiler in a comment.

spoiler

This is a spoiler in my comment.