/me Action Text

Bring back the classic IRC action command

Remember typing /me back in the mIRC days, watching your name turn into a little third-person narrator for whatever chaos you were causing in the channel? * Oblivion Knight sets the room on fire — that one line of syntax did more for forum personality in 1999 than half the emoji keyboard does today.

/me Action Text brings it back. Start any line with /me and it transforms into a proper action message — italicised, coloured, third-person — no BBCode wrangling required:

/me facepalms at the reply count on this thread

becomes

* Oblivion Knight facepalms at the reply count on this thread

Nostalgia, fully modernised:

• Works anywhere a message can be posted — threads, conversations, profile posts, comments — not just one corner of the forum.
• Full style control via a genuine XenForo style property: text, background, border, the lot. Change it once, and it updates every /me ever posted, instantly.
• A built-in "Simple" mode for anyone who'd rather keep things minimal and permanent — plain colour, zero dependency risk if you ever uninstall.
• Sensible by design: only triggers at the very start of a line, so a stray /me mid-sentence never gets misread as a command.

If you were there for the /me era, you know exactly why this matters. If you weren't — you're about to find out why a whole generation of IRC users still narrate their own actions in third person out of pure habit.