AllNightPlayer.1286 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Ever since it got updated, the text editor of the forum is rather plain and hard to use. Why isn’t it possible to embed pictures anymore? Why can’t I check the code to see, if there’re unnecessary formatting in my text? Why can’t I remove all text formatting, if an inserted text is all messed up? I miss the previous version, where you could also use Markdown commands (**, ~~, etc.) to format a text. They were much easier to use than BBCode of the old forum. The threads about update notes use things like headings and titles, but I don’t know how to add/use them myself. I beg you to update and expand the commands of the text editor. 5 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythical.6315 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 I dislike the extra spacing it does for paragraphs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungo Zen.9364 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 If there are less variables to the forum then the moderators have less stuff they need to deal with. We get a feature less forum to facilitate Anet saving money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 I don't know what sort of answer you are looking for but it basically all comes down to "because ANet didn't want them enabled". Details below. 8 hours ago, AllNightPlayer.1286 said: Why isn’t it possible to embed pictures anymore? https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/images/images-overview.html 8 hours ago, AllNightPlayer.1286 said: Why can’t I check the code to see, if there’re unnecessary formatting in my text? https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/source-editing.html 8 hours ago, AllNightPlayer.1286 said: Why can’t I remove all text formatting, if an inserted text is all messed up? https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/select-all.html https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/remove-format.html When you paste in formatted text there should be a bar that pops up in the bottom of editor that lets you strip the formatting. 8 hours ago, AllNightPlayer.1286 said: The threads about update notes use things like headings and titles, but I don’t know how to add/use them myself. I beg you to update and expand the commands of the text editor. https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/autoformat.html Markdown is still supported so the devs might be using the editor with those enabled but it is more likely that they are simply writing those post in something else and pasting it in to post. Although that might differ from dev to dev. Evidence for the external editor use comes from the times when their post has a static white background, even for and to the annoyance of people using the dark theme. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftFootpaws.9134 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) The new editor is super great if you're on the dark theme. Whenever someone copies and pastes text from somewhere else and it comes out with white backgrounds, and forced formatting for some reason. There's so many posts that turn into an unreadable mess. Anyway, ArenaNet doesn't have anything to do with the forum software and can't control it. Its developed and hosted by Invision and the previous forum was made by some other company, I think? Edited December 30, 2022 by Mariyuuna.6508 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Mariyuuna.6508 said: The new editor is super great if you're on the dark theme. Whenever someone copies and pastes text from somewhere else and it comes out with white backgrounds, and forced formatting for some reason. There's so many posts that turn into an unreadable mess. Anyway, ArenaNet doesn't have anything to do with the forum software and can't control it. Its developed and hosted by Invision and the previous forum was made by some other company, I think? and sometimes people decide to make the text extra small ... forum and editor are by different people and this is the third forum software already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 As much as the first in-house forum software had 'search' issues, I liked it the best. Then, I guess Vanilla software, and least Invision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 6 hours ago, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said: As much as the first in-house forum software had 'search' issues, I liked it the best. Then, I guess Vanilla software, and least Invision. The first one was from Fangamer which is strange because that doesn't seem to be a product or service that was ever offered by them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuchslein.8639 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I Like the simplicity of the Editor. Personally don't Like it when people use x Ton of colors, different textfont, ect. Although i don't understand why they took Out the picture-implematation. Isn't it way Harder to moderate now when people Just Post links to Pictures? Who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nine Inch Snails.7963 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Now that obnoxious "users here" thing is somehow dodging the custom filter I have that hid it and is back again. I just noticed its unwelcome return a few days ago. My filter hasn't changed. 😡 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Khisanth.2948 said: The first one was from Fangamer which is strange because that doesn't seem to be a product or service that was ever offered by them. I've never heard that before. The Devs said it was created in-house, but the person left that could fix 'search', and then the server got too old.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 28 minutes ago, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said: I've never heard that before. The Devs said it was created in-house, but the person left that could fix 'search', and then the server got too old.... It was mentioned if you checked the site's source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Hmm...never heard that in all these years. Learn something every day, I suppose. (Not sure what 'site' to which you refer, but will take your word for it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllNightPlayer.1286 Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) Thanks for the information, @Khisanth.2948. My understanding is that there could be more features, but ANet decided to leave us with the demo version. Currently, I have the impression that our options are more limited than ever and we were able to create better threads/posts with the old forum’s software. Edited December 30, 2022 by AllNightPlayer.1286 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 13 minutes ago, AllNightPlayer.1286 said: Thanks for the information, @Khisanth.2948. My understanding is that there could be more features, but ANet decided to leave us with the demo version. Currently, I have the impression that our options are more limited than ever and we were able to create better threads/posts with the old forum’s software. None of the things you described are part of the premium set https://ckeditor.com/pricing so it's not a matter of paying for the features. I don't see any relation between quality of posts and discussion with the editor. Except maybe image embedding. Some things could be better explained with images or at least easier to explain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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