'Rich' Editor feedback.

masonic

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860080#Comment_81860080

I've seen this too, but I wonder if it is just that someone has posted, deleted their post because it didn't come out the way they intended, then reposted. I have done a lot of post-delete-repost cycles in recent days as I try to grapple with the new system.

I'm also getting a different problem with notifications (which predates the editor change) wherein there is quite a long delay between a post being made and the notification arriving. Meaning that posts I have seen and read minutes (or sometimes as long as an hour) earlier are appearing as new notifications. Since the arrival of the new editor, for some reason this has got worse. Perhaps there has been an uptick in the number of notifications being sent due to quoted posts resulting in "mentions" now?

ColdIron

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860831#Comment_81860831

In other news (and I accept that everyone may have discovered this before I have) if you click on the time link in the partial quote, the 8:12 pm one in @masonic's post above, it takes you to the original post

PennysIntoPounds

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860545#Comment_81860545

I have the issue of it adding an extra @ so it doesn't actually notify other forum users, but thought I'd not mention it until the other pressing problems have been sorted out 😁

Someone else has mentioned that the double spacing isn't that important but for me and others it is important as it makes our diaries much less easy for people to read (and these readers are our friends and supportive communities), and as I mentioned in an earlier post here, it is costing you double the server storage money and being doubly bad for the environment to do so. As well as it being rather bad form to not allow people to write in paragraphs that make sense

Okell

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860473#Comment_81860473

So are the people who complain to the forumteam email address about the old editor regular users or just occasional users?

I don't want to belittle or denigrate occasional users, but do you place equal value on complaints from them as you do regular users?

I'm thinking of regular posters like @Coupon-mad who has accumulated over 158,000 posts in 20 years and is one of the many people complaining on here about the new "improved" editor.

There are many other posters on here complaining about the new editor who each have several tens of thousands of posts behind them.

As far as I know the MSE board advising on how to deal with private parking tickets is one of the most highly respected and regarded on the internet. I see people being referred to the MSE board from other forums like legal beagles and ftla.

And one of the reasons the MSE board is so highly regarded is because of the advice given by contributors like - along with several other well respected posters - @Coupon-mad.

I've no idea who is sending in the "regular complaints" about the old editor, but unless they are regular posters contributing to improving this forum's wider reputation, perhaps you might be paying undue attention to them?

masonic

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860902#Comment_81860902

On numerous occasions so far, I've instinctively clicked on the bold link below it, thinking that would link to the post. However, that is the post quoted by the post quoted, if you know what I mean. Not exactly intuitive, but a side effect of the new editor not being able to nest quotes.

This is related to the behaviour whereby a link to another post, when pasted into a reply, automatically creates a quote block.

Perhaps we could educate Vanilla about the wonders of recursion and solve one of the main gripes people are having?

pecunianonolet

My feedback: Terrible!

Can we just please revert back. This is a nightmare to use.

ColdIron

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860978#Comment_81860978

"The post quoted by the post quoted if you know what I mean" (I had to type that because I cannot paste)

But I know what you mean. Recursion is possibly the most powerful force in the universe, stack overflow, if you know what I mean

"This is related to …" (cba with the middle bit) "when pasted into a reply …"

Are you just taunting me? I dream of pasting 😀

I fear that I am at the end of the road and a unique victim of the new RTE

Grrr

Section62

I fear that I am at the end of the road and a unique victim of the new RTE

Is it also not letting you post into a code block…

Like this

?

Midnighter

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81860831#Comment_81860831

I suppose that's possible, but wouldn't I then receive another notification on-site and via email? Not that I have.

I was also receiving double notifications via email: one stating I'd received a reply, and a separate one containing the reply. No idea if this is still the case, I now just delete email notifications without reading them!

Rollinghome

There are serious problems with this software.

I tried to test the "quote" button, the quoted text appeared, and then havings tested it, I closed my message.

I then found that when I came back, and tried to quote and reply to another message, the previous quote and message appeared. Not the one I'd selected. I then found that I couldn't find any way to exit or cancel. The only options I could see were the two Save Draft and the Post Comment buttons, no Cancel button. The only thing I could do was to bin the problem quote, backspace away the previous message that I didn't want, then post something without being able to make clear that I was replying to a post several pages back.

Was there anything else I could have done?

I see there are instructions of some sort, but a decently coded board shouldn't need instructions. It should be intuitive, and another post with instructions can't be read when you're stuck in a thread you can't exit. I just noticed that cut and paste does work as it should do either. Seems to be full of bugs.

There's still plenty of good off-the-shelf forum software out there, but this isn't one of them.

PS. I see you must know all that already. And so must have the developer had he spent more than 10 minutes testing it. It's a mess, good luck with it.