Spoiler Cuts, Sweetie!

[astrogirl2]

Hey, it looks like LJ actually added a genuinely cool and useful feature for once! Let's try out the new spoiler cut tag!

[Spoiler cut with no spoilers behind it!]
OK, well, that works, but there's no way to end the cut, so you can't have no-spoilery stuff after your spoiler cut. And after a bit of fiddling around, I've detemined that if you don't put a line break after the cut, like,

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[jhall1]

So how is it different from the original LJ cut facility?

ETA: OK, ignore that. I've now scrolled on down and found LJ's own post about the new facility.

[astrogirl2]

I really like the ability to click on something and get it to show up without having to reload the page. It does seem like a great way of hiding spoilers.

[rydra_wong]

Was the stuff following "spoiler cut tag" supposed to be cut? Because it wasn't, for me.

[rydra_wong]

*sighs*

Found the explanation -- apparently if you don't let livejournal.com run Javascript (which I don't, because of the previous issues with virus-laded ads), the cut doesn't happen:

http://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/332060.html

[astrogirl2]

Ah! Interesting. Hmm, that could be problematic... :(

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Cool! I had just put that LJ News entry in Memorable Entries to come back and mess with later, and I saw you'd already tried it! Thank you!

[astrogirl2]

I started playing around with it so quickly that apparently I was the first on to catch the bug with the line breaks. Which they then actually responded to pretty quickly, although they don't seem to have fixed it yet.