What has happened to the preview and other buttons?

What has happened to the buttons on the posting section like 'bold' 'Italic' and the 'preview' option.

They have disapeared from my view. Is this just me or has it happened to the website as a whole?

I agree. Bring back the preview button. In fact, the submit button should not appear until after you have pressed the preview button. It would cause you to see your message once more for consideration before posting.

I wanted my "hanging chad" to be be seen as my voter intent [b]"FOR[/b] seeing the preview before the submit button appears!!

One more thing... I didn't use those smiley faces that often, but I really liked them!

I know you wanted to simplify things but does simplify have to mean "less" of something? [insert huge smiley face here]

;-) :-) :-( :-)

: ) :) :-/

Miccah, where did you get those smiley things??

Leo's didn't work.

[b]@Lysa[/b]
For smileys, typing ":)" ":(" and ";)" won't work. You have to type ": -)" ": -(" and "; -)" but remove the spaces in between the colon/semicolon and the dash. The smileys will look like this:

:-) :-( ;-)

As for the previews, I don't know what the deal is. The mods might know more than me. :-)

EDIT: Speaking of preview button, I was having some problems with it before it got gone. Every time I wanted to post a scripture reference (ex: Psalm 7:11-12) and I pressed preview, the reference would disappear in the actual post. In order for the post to look right, I had to not press preview before posting. Some other users might have experienced the same problem, and maybe that's why the preview button got removed. I don't know, really. :-(

:-) :-) ;-) Thanks!