Quick reply... yeah, I keep the board in the flat-mode and sometimes just go down to the bottom and start typing. This clearly makes a mess of the pretty threads.
Behind the scenes, it makes it more difficult for admins or moderators to split threads if needed. Including times that members have asked for splits. The member benefit also remains that people see the appropriate "Re: person" tags to follow the conversation when it has diverged. Such as this example
I've looked for a quick UBBThreads mod to try and disable the Quick Reply box until a button is clicked, but didn't turn up much. My own PHP and Javascript skills atrophied enough to not be able to knock it out quickly in my limited time lately.
Anyway, back to USB-C, this is interesting. So Apple is shoving more power through its existing Lightning connector, apparently using one of the USB-C fast charging power profiles. You'd kinda think that Apple should just punt Lightning and go with USB-C. Hmm.
It's an interesting conundrum, and a situation I see Apple being in one of those "damned if they do, damned if they don't" positions.
Lightning does give them control over what accessories will work with iOS devices. A cynical person will say it's for greedy reasons, though I believe the reasons Apple states. They want to maintain their certification program to try and ensure counterfit products don't have a chance at killing the end users. And that the products are made to specs that tend to be a little higher then industry average. They haven't had full success with this, however it is at least a better situation then the current USB-C charger cable mess. Did that Google engineer ever resume his testing of cables as a personal project when a bad cable fried his laptop, or get anyone in the standards bodies to be doing it as an official thing?
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