A means to export an entire public or DM topic as a single markdown document where the export action is UI-accessible to all the participants in said topic.
And maybe (but for me not required) to have this feature available for anyone on public topics.
I interact with many Discourse forums publicly and DM’ingly and have a need to archive discussions there in a personal markdown-based knowledge base. This is not only very time-consuming, but I can’t get the raw markdown of other people’s posts in forums where I’m not mod or admin (logically), so I have to recreate it manually.
Thanks, that would be so cool. But it only returns the first post in the topic and not the entire conversation thread.
Edit: More doable, by iterating over each post in the thread in raw mode, but for a thread with 60 posts still a lot of work. Furthermore it contains only the body of the post and there is no information on who posted, and when.
Thank you, yes, I sometimes use that, but the content becomes ‘locked in’. It does not fit well with my knowledge base (create cross-links, etc.). Markdown is so simple and easy to work with, that I select all my tools around it. It is a great timesaver if you can just move MD snippets around all over the place.
I was just asked that question yesterday. Are you referring to the print function of the browser? Or is there a Discourse feature to print the entire topic thread that I am not seeing?
Let’s see. I’ll include a code block here with a fair bit of code and see what it looks like in print:
import java.util.Scanner;
/**
* Game of AceyDucey
* <p>
* Based on the Basic game of AceyDucey here
* https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/blob/main/01%20Acey%20Ducey/aceyducey.bas
* Note: The idea was to create a version of the 1970's Basic game in Java, without introducing
* new features - no additional text, error checking, etc has been added.
*/
public class AceyDucey {
// Current amount of players cash
private int playerAmount;
// First drawn dealer card
private Card firstCard;
// Second drawn dealer card
private Card secondCard;
// Players drawn card
private Card playersCard;
// User to display game intro/instructions
private boolean firstTimePlaying = true;
// game state to determine if game over
private boolean gameOver = false;
// Used for keyboard input
private final Scanner kbScanner;
// Constant value for cards from a deck - 2 lowest, 14 (Ace) highest
public static final int LOW_CARD_RANGE = 2;
public static final int HIGH_CARD_RANGE = 14;
public AceyDucey() {
// Initialise players cash
playerAmount = 100;
// Initialise kb scanner
kbScanner = new Scanner(System.in);
}
// Play again method - public method called from class invoking game
// If player enters YES then the game can be played again (true returned)
// otherwise not (false)
public boolean playAgain() {
System.out.println();
System.out.println("SORRY, FRIEND, BUT YOU BLEW YOUR WAD.");
System.out.println();
System.out.println();
System.out.print("TRY AGAIN (YES OR NO) ");
String playAgain = kbScanner.next().toUpperCase();
System.out.println();
System.out.println();
if (playAgain.equals("YES")) {
return true;
} else {
System.out.println("O.K., HOPE YOU HAD FUN!");
return false;
}
}
// game loop method
public void play() {
// Keep playing hands until player runs out of cash
do {
if (firstTimePlaying) {
intro();
firstTimePlaying = false;
}
displayBalance();
drawCards();
displayCards();
int betAmount = getBet();
playersCard = randomCard();
displayPlayerCard();
if (playerWon()) {
System.out.println("YOU WIN!!");
playerAmount += betAmount;
} else {
System.out.println("SORRY, YOU LOSE");
playerAmount -= betAmount;
// Player run out of money?
if (playerAmount <= 0) {
gameOver = true;
}
}
} while (!gameOver); // Keep playing until player runs out of cash
}
// Method to determine if player won (true returned) or lost (false returned)
// to win a players card has to be in the range of the first and second dealer
// drawn cards inclusive of first and second cards.
private boolean playerWon() {
// winner
return (playersCard.getValue() >= firstCard.getValue())
&& playersCard.getValue() <= secondCard.getValue();
}
private void displayPlayerCard() {
System.out.println(playersCard.getName());
}
// Get the players bet, and return the amount
// 0 is considered a valid bet, but better more than the player has available is not
// method will loop until a valid bet is entered.
private int getBet() {
boolean validBet = false;
int amount;
do {
System.out.print("WHAT IS YOUR BET ");
amount = kbScanner.nextInt();
if (amount == 0) {
System.out.println("CHICKEN!!");
validBet = true;
} else if (amount > playerAmount) {
System.out.println("SORRY, MY FRIEND, BUT YOU BET TOO MUCH.");
System.out.println("YOU HAVE ONLY " + playerAmount + " DOLLARS TO BET.");
} else {
validBet = true;
}
} while (!validBet);
return amount;
}
private void displayBalance() {
System.out.println("YOU NOW HAVE " + playerAmount + " DOLLARS.");
}
private void displayCards() {
System.out.println("HERE ARE YOUR NEXT TWO CARDS: ");
System.out.println(firstCard.getName());
System.out.println(secondCard.getName());
}
// Draw two dealer cards, and save them for later use.
// ensure that the first card is a smaller value card than the second one
private void drawCards() {
do {
firstCard = randomCard();
secondCard = randomCard();
} while (firstCard.getValue() >= secondCard.getValue());
}
// Creates a random card
private Card randomCard() {
return new Card((int) (Math.random()
* (HIGH_CARD_RANGE - LOW_CARD_RANGE + 1) + LOW_CARD_RANGE));
}
public void intro() {
System.out.println("ACEY DUCEY CARD GAME");
System.out.println("CREATIVE COMPUTING MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY");
System.out.println();
System.out.println();
System.out.println("ACEY-DUCEY IS PLAYED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER");
System.out.println("THE DEALER (COMPUTER) DEALS TWO CARDS FACE UP");
System.out.println("YOU HAVE AN OPTION TO BET OR NOT BET DEPENDING");
System.out.println("ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU FEEL THE CARD WILL HAVE");
System.out.println("A VALUE BETWEEN THE FIRST TWO.");
System.out.println("IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BET, INPUT: 0");
}
}
Note that we have fairly complete accessibility support, so I’d be interested to hear specifically what is not working for your blind user @thresholdpeople .
Also the above code block looks fine in the printed version to me. I just pressed “print” in Chrome then “save as PDF” to generate a PDF version of this very topic:
