@amitsolanki24_ You can use Markdown to reference external images, but I'd rather that folks not upload a bunch of images.

@JeffreyWay Agreed, if you feel the need to include an image that is easily in markdown from an externa image host. However, maybe you should consider switching to tiptap editor like Luke uses in the forum series, and then show a toolbar with the most common things like code block, lists, and such, and with an option to show it or not, so that we old dogs here don't see it if we don't want to,

@martinbean I want to laugh, but I guess not everyone has english as their first language.

@tisuchi Thanks! Still working on that page today, so a few more tweaks to come.

@Snapey Same issue on Mac using Chrome, but not all the time.

@MichalOravec Support your idea. 👍

Expressing my thought, it could be a Metric for laracasts forum like h-index.

@MichalOravec how about a thumbs-up count? Good participation is rewarded over the long term with positive feedback. I know this counts to xp but could be separate?

@Snapey Counting thumbs-up is also a good idea.

@jlrdw Last activity is not exclusive to participation on the forum. It could also be watching a video or something like that.

@Beiri Good luck with that! You might manage it if you don't have a job :-)

@Snapey Oh no, that it will take some years to do, I'm just planning ahead.

@jeffreyway Agreed. At least a thumbs down.

@iamgeorge You may want to contact support also.

https://laracasts.com/contact

@tisuchi Thanks! Fixed.

@PhilKz I'm not sure I understand the request. Why not simply pause the background video if you're watching something before opening Lary if it's such a bother? Or open Lary in another window on the side of the screen.

@_adrian I'm referring to the video that gets played when you visit the landing page (laracasts.com) as a decorative element. It's grayed out behind the bit that says "power to the modern developer." There's no way to pause or disable it. The movement is very annoying while reading, and it chews up data while on a mobile connection.

@JeffreyWay I like it. However, it would be good to "Mark for reference" courses and lessons, and then display them to the right side, that way it would be super easy to copy paste the url in your replies, and maybe even add external links to posts.

This would be nice since I'm constantly (it seems) link to the beginner courses.

@MichalOravec I'm working on some XP changes as we speak. We'll raise the max level beyond 50, introduce prizes (free shirt at level X), a special award at the highest level, etc.

Currently active users won't be affected. If you or @snapey receive a best reply, your XP will grow at the same rate as everyone else. But yeah, ancient accounts with high XP will fall behind a bit...which is fair, I think.

@JeffreyWay just seen this and saw I'd dropped down the Leaderboard. That'll teach me for not keeping up.

@brainjet I thought it was just me but yeah, the colour palette seems to have gone from a nice dark blue to a lifeless grey-blue.

@martinbean Yeah. Unfortunately due to readability in light conditions we had to choose something less dark. This is the middle ground between that deep dark blue and a light theme, since we still wanted to keep a dark theme. This is also the reason why there's no more light theme on the forum, since we bumped the brightness. I'm also a fan of darker themes but unless everyone has 2k nits on their monitor, not sure how to compromise this, haha.

@brainjet @jeffreyway No, please leave it alone.You made it where it's now not as loud to the eyes. The original dark theme hurt my eyes. And if you would recall another question on this i'm definitely not the only user with a dark theme hurts your eyes. He's a subscriber.

@martinbean That lifeless Gray blue as you call It is not as bad on some of our eyes.

@martinbeam I quite like the lifeless grey-blue.

The deep blue was nice, I agree, but failed in conditions where the lighting wasn't ideal. We received lots and lots of support requests about this. And I experienced it myself. I'd go to a coffee shop, sit by the window, and really struggle to read the site on my laptop. I don't feel that way with this new color.

@jlrdw Glad to hear it.

@JeffreyWay @_adrian

Quotes are not appearing as quotes, the contained box color isn't clear.

@Snapey I suggested a light grey-ish border around it to make it pop a little more.

@Snapey I'll tweak the text color a bit to make it stand out more.

@JeffreyWay it became harder to notice (for me anyway)

@martinbean Sure. Adding a task now.

@martinbean Okay, done.

function test() {
- console.log("Hello, World!");
+ console.log("Hello, Laracasts!");
}

@JeffreyWay Amazing. Thanks!

@JeffreyWay how do we show diff lines?

@Snapey https://welearncode.com/create-diff-markdown/

function hello(){
- Delete this 
+ keep this
}

@JeffreyWay Adding to this, what languages are currently supported?

@Snapey I like the leaderboard idea. I think it's good to have a weekly scores. And weekly person of the forum (might be a badge for how many you get this :D).

Stackoverflow has something like that: https://stackoverflow.com/users