The lack of this has been bugging me (and others) for a while.
Previously if you wanted to write something spoilery in a review you had to mark the entire review as a spoiler, which means fewer people will probably read it.
I’ve just added a new button in the review editor: Highlight some text and click the little magic wand icon to turn it into ‘spoiler text’. As the review text box doesn’t have an ‘edit mode and a preview mode’ like the forum, I make it go red and added a border instead of blurry, so you can still read what you wrote!
Then I changed the “Spoilers” options to say if you have unhidden spoilers. This way you can avoid marking an entire review as a spoiler if you just want to say one little spoiler thing that you can hide.
Note that it only works on lines of text, not whole paragraphs. There is a technical reason for this but also I think if you have loads of paragraphs of spoilers you probably should just make the whole thing a spoiler.
Please try out this feature and let me know if you have any issues
Brilliant nee feature! And @MrColdStream your new reviews with spoiler texts are great! I’ll have no fear when you publish your review on The Good Life before I finish
Yay! Great to hear! That was honestly why I was happy this feature dropped now! I don’t mind marking a review of an older release with the old spoiler warning, but I think this is new for these new releases so that I can talk about them openly for those who have listened, but still give those who haven’t listened a chance to read the reviews and decide whether the release is for them or not.
I was skeptical at first because change is scary but just wrote a review with them. It’s so great. It is fast and easy to identify and mark spoilers after writing out my review.
It’s a good option to allow people to enjoy reviews whether or not they have experienced the story. That feels especially useful for audio, books, and comics, where one generally has to pay to access each story and people might want a sense whether it is worth checking it out. Bravo!
I also typed all this out just before seeing that @MrColdStream JUST basically said the same thing.
