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WYSIWYG editors are universally bad, and so are Markdown ones. The benefit of Markdown is that you just write it in a text editor. You don't need syntax highlig
by kick 6y ago
WYSIWYG editors are universally bad, and so are Markdown ones. The benefit of Markdown is that you just write it in a text editor. You don't need syntax highlighting to use it effectively. Take reddit, as an example, which got millions of people to write perfect Markdown as intuitively as writing English.
- saagarjha 6y agoIt really depends on the editor. Some editors give you raw access to the underlying code and apply styles to it as you type, kind of like syntax highlighting. Some actually try to be rich text editors with a (usually restricted) Markdown input. You can guess which ones make me want to flip a table. (Hint: Slack, fix your editor!)
- oefrha 6y agoIf you think Slack is bad, try https://github.community/ https://github.community/.
- unityByFreedom 6y ago> You ranked up to Ground Controller Lvl 1 I hate those undisableable social media accomplishments that come up as notifications, is Github.community based on Discourse or did it just copy their bad ideas? edit: wow you can disable them in this one, amazing. I still hate it.
- woodrowbarlow 6y agoi think slack now allows you to disable the visual editor in settings - you can still format with markdown but the formatting isn't rendered until you send.
- ssb1 6y agoYeah but it's half-arsed; specifically, doesn't do [links](...).
- woodrowbarlow 6y agothat sounds so aggravating. i haven't used slack in years but it sounds like its functionality has taken nothing but steps backwards since then. but i'm sure they've added cool new react emojis, so i guess they've been pretty busy with that.
- unityByFreedom 6y agoI like entering markdown in text editors, it gives me the freedom to format without fighting the editor. A preview panel helps, and yeah reddit demonstrates that people can learn it.
- tjchear 6y agoWhen you say WYSIWYG editors are universally bad, do you mean the idea of it is just bad, or the implementations we've had so far are bad?
- kaoD 6y agoIf every single implementation we've had so far after all these years is bad, probably the idea itself is too.