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I want the reply-tool and new section creator, but the section subscription is just a headache... can i have the option to disable it?

Yes, you can disable individual features in Preferences → Editing → Discussion pages.

...the section subscription is just a headache

hi @Theleekycauldron: are you able to share a bit more about your experience with the section subscription feature? I'm curious to learn what's causing you to want to disable it in case there are aspects of the feature we ought to consider revising...

@PPelberg (WMF): it's just that it keeps showing up whenever I use the double-click to try and copy the whole of a section heading. then I gotta delete it, and since I do a lot of manual copy/paste work, it's a hassle.

Ah, I see! Can you share what browser you are using? And even better, a screen recording of you experiencing the issue you are describing above?

...I ask the above as I seem to be able to double click section headings without the [edit] or [subscribe] links being selected.

I've uploaded a video here; i use google chrome 100.0.4896.75, as you can see

Thanks, that’s really useful! I can reproduce it with Chromium 90.0.4430.212 (but not with Firefox 91.8.0esr), even on w:Bay of Winds, which has absolutely nothing to do with DiscussionTools (on this page, of course only [edit] gets unnecessarily copied, as there’s no subscribe link). Disabling topic subscriptions can reduce the number of characters you need to delete after copying, but the bug doesn’t seem to be specific to DiscussionTools.

Leeky, I don't see anything at that link.

I wonder if this could be solved with CSS (for all the [buttons]). Perhaps there's some way to mark them as not worth copying, or as being separate?

the video contained some identifying information, so I removed it. I could upload another, if you'd like?

No, I don't think I need that. I'm glad that you removed the file with identifying information.

I wonder if this could be solved with CSS (for all the [buttons]). Perhaps there's some way to mark them as not worth copying, or as being separate?

They already have user-select: none, which is a hint that they’re not worth copying. However, per the spec, browsers are only required not to select such text, copying it is not forbidden. Making selection and copy behavior consistent is just a best practice recommended by the spec, and Chrome seems to ignore it. I think the best we can do here is to ask Chrome developers to follow the best practices.

Thanks, @Matma Rex!