@pagan One of the things we spent a lot of time trying to accomplish in new MaplePrimes was to allow direct copy/paste from Maple into MaplePrimes. We definitely see the huge value in this feature.

Unfortunately, what we ran into is that in both Flash and JavaScript, web developers are unable to get the "Rich Text" version of the clipboard data in the web browser.  This is part of the security design of browsers, they restrict the use of the clipboard in order to stop developers from taking advantage of that access.

So what this means is that we can't support the rich copy/paste of 2-D math or plots straight into MaplePrimes.

However, we don't think that all is lost. In new Primes, we greatly improved the HTML conversion of worksheets. You can upload a worksheet (with the green up arrow in the toolbar) and click "Insert Full Contents". This will convert your worksheet including all 2-D math and Plots into HTML and paste it into the editor. 

We think this is the easiest and fastest way to get rich math onto the web; simply compose your post in Maple. Save the worksheet and upload it to Primes. 

@pagan One of the things we spent a lot of time trying to accomplish in new MaplePrimes was to allow direct copy/paste from Maple into MaplePrimes. We definitely see the huge value in this feature.

Unfortunately, what we ran into is that in both Flash and JavaScript, web developers are unable to get the "Rich Text" version of the clipboard data in the web browser.  This is part of the security design of browsers, they restrict the use of the clipboard in order to stop developers from taking advantage of that access.

So what this means is that we can't support the rich copy/paste of 2-D math or plots straight into MaplePrimes.

However, we don't think that all is lost. In new Primes, we greatly improved the HTML conversion of worksheets. You can upload a worksheet (with the green up arrow in the toolbar) and click "Insert Full Contents". This will convert your worksheet including all 2-D math and Plots into HTML and paste it into the editor. 

We think this is the easiest and fastest way to get rich math onto the web; simply compose your post in Maple. Save the worksheet and upload it to Primes. 

For Alec's point #1. One feature we added to MaplePrimes is when you are asking a question, while you are typing in the title of the question, we automatically search for similar questions and display those results beneath the title field. 

That way, even if people don't think to search before asking a question, they might find the answer before they even ask the question.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

The style guide needs to be updated, it is still left over from the old MaplePrimes. We will be updating it soon.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

We need to test the moderation functions on the live site. We'll be re-adding the moderators soon. We'll let you know when that becomes available.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

Mostly showing off the new, improved HTML Conversion of MaplePrimes. Here is the worksheet Samir posted in HTML:

Download Mathcad_5.2.mw

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

Mostly showing off the new, improved HTML Conversion of MaplePrimes. Here is the worksheet Samir posted in HTML:

Download Mathcad_5.2.mw

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

Comments on an answer don't count as an action on the Question. So that is why the question's last action wasn't updated.

I can see how this is a problem, and I'll consider changing this behavior.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

Most of those levels don't apply to MaplePrimes. We considered having a level where users can edit other people's items, but we felt the community would react badly to this. We may reconsider adding it in the future.

• 10 Make community wiki posts - Don't have community wiki
• 15 Vote up - On primes 
• 15 Flag offensive - All users can flag items. If this is abused, we may change this. 
• 15 Post more than one link - All users can post as many links as they want. Again may change if we see abuse. 
• 15 Post images - All users can post images. 
• 50 Leave comments - All users can post comments. We considered restricting this at first, but felt we should allow all users to comment. 
• 100 Vote down (costs 1 rep) - On primes 
• 100 Edit community wiki posts - Don't have community wiki 
• 100 Post more than one question per 20 minutes - There are no posting limits, again may change if we see abuse. 
• 100 Post more than one answer per 2 minutes - There are no posting limits, again may change if we see abuse. 
• 200 Reduced advertising (by a factor of 2) - No advertising on primes 
• 250 Vote to close or reopen your questions - Questions are never "closed" on primes 
• 250 Create new tags - On primes 
• 500 Retag questions - Might add this in the future 
• 2000 Edit other people's posts - Discussed above 
• 3000 Vote to close or reopen any questions - Questions are never "closed" on primes 
• 10000 Delete closed questions - Questions are never "closed" on primes. 
• 10000 Access to moderation tools - We will be handing out moderation tools manually. We don't have nearly the traffic of StackOverflow, so this can easily stay manual

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft

We use reputation on MaplePrimes to grant access to users as their reputation increases as well. Check out the reputation help page. You already have > 350 reputation so you won't have noticed any changes as your rep increases.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

Since this is a separate question, I converted the Answer into a new Question

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

A note that the same question was just posted to StackOverflow, further answers might also appear there.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

Posts are meant for people to share something with the community or to spark a discussion. Questions are for problems that should have a solution. 

Questions are meant to be like questions in the StackExchange sense, where a question has an answer. We added Posts to the Stack formula to add what we considered to be the missing part of the StackExchange sites, somwhere for people to chat or share things with the community.

I agree that having problems with MaplePrimes labelled as a Post can be confusing, and perhaps those would be better as Questions. The reason we have them as Posts is so that we can categorize items under that category. Posts have categorization, whereas Questions are only categorized with Product and Tag information.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

Actually Primes is supposed to have autocomplete for tags, that feature is just currently not working. It'll be turned on soon.

The reason we have the tag suggestions is so that new users can come in and enter some tags without understanding what tags really are. Now that the tag list is growing, I see that the current method doesn't necessarily work; and we'll reconsider how it works soon.

The Academic tag comes from the segment that you have set for your user profile. Students are always suggested they add "student", and commercial and government, "government". This was done to replicate the student forums from old Primes, hoping that students would tag their posts appropriately. We figured that an "academic" and "commercial" tag would also be useful ways to segment items on Primes.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft 

You are correct, for that Question, the last action date was not correctly updated. I tested posting a new Comment and Answer to that Question, and both times the last action date correctly updated.

It looks to me like this was a temporary glitch. I'll keep an eye on it to see if it happens again.

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William Spaetzel
MaplePrimes Administrator
Software Developer, Maplesoft