Posting needs to feel more like notepad.
The posting is to hard to make look nice, between having to add a the br command to get spaces, and little things like that, just want the posting to feel more like a word processor in some ways for easy novice user support.
I mean when I do things, and space them they look correct in the editor, but then when I post its not what I want. Very frustrating experience.
I do love the buttons across the top making it easier to add things like bullet lists, images, things of that nature. Is there a reason there is no underline feature?
Just my two cents.
Completely agree. I did a big post with different elements last night and took me ages. Formatting lists, links and graphics is less than intuitive.
I have used systems with TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor and from a user point of view, it really is excellent. Something similar would be great.
The post entry system should be practically transparent to users, not an obstacle discouraging content.
The trouble with tinymce, yui editor and so on, it that you do give up quite a lot of control. The other thing that really annoys me is that it completely mucks up your html.
I totally understand it can be a bit frustrating to format stuff properly using markdown
The huge advantage you get with what-you-mean-is-what-you-see is that the text that describes the contents formatting reads really well as plain text.
I am not completely against switching editors, but I would prefer to refine the current system, so its easier to use.
Also, keep in mind, a lot of the current issues can be helped if we have better documentation and/or a better toolbar.
For example, if you end a line with 2 spaces you get a line break.
To me this feels much more like notepad.
if you end a line with 2 spaces you get a line break
So if I type this long sentence and want a line break here.
2 spaces will make this sentence go on the second line?
For refinements, my primary frustration is the lists and code.
(hey, that line break thing works)
If I type (or paste in) some list, highlight it and press list, I'd expect the highlighted block to become the list but it doesn’t and sorting it takes effort (and I don’t do effort well!)
I've had issues with code blocks too but don’t recall specifically.
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You need “sp,sp,cr/lf”
my question is why make a user need to learn more coding to make a nice post, why cant the editor recognize things like spacing is needed. Like I said what you type in the editor doesn’t really appear, very frustrating and non user friendly in my opinion to a brand new user wanting to post here
