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[naomi24]

Nooo.... not you. ;O)

Does anyone remember back in the Dark Ages about a hundred years ago - or at least it feels like that sometimes - when we could award one, two or three stars to answers on our own threads? I mentioned it on another thread the other day and I seem to be the only one who remembers it. I'm sure I've not been dreaming.

[naomi24]

Dave, sometimes people have very good reason for changing their username…. and then again some wouldn’t be allowed back here unless they did….

[naomi24]

Jno, can you remember how those varying fonts worked? Did we choose the one we wanted or did the system just surprise us?

[jno]

I didn't notice them at all at the time, naomi. Maybe shrinking the text was a later space-saving measure, which sounds daft but I can think of no other explanation. There was a colour palette available.

[Zacs-Master]

I'm sure there was a typeface / font selector too.

[naomi24]

I can’t say I noticed them at the time, Jno.

[naomi24]

I don’t remember that, zacs.

[jno]

my post at 13.33 links to a description of how to get colours, bold, italic, invisible etc, with a note that it was only available on Internet Explorer, not Firefox. There's no mention of choosing a different type size, and I don't ever recall doing that (because why would anyone want their post to be tiny?), which is why I'm guessing that it was done retrospectively in a redesign. But that's just a guess.

[webbo3]

I remember

[naomi24]

What happened to the badges? I don’t think we knew they were being abandoned did we? They just quietly disappeared. I always thought that a daft idea anyway.

[sandyRoe]

Can we still do italics?

[jno]

yes but by golly they're tricky.