the docked composer is nice but it seems buggy. i have repro’d on my forum and meta in safe-mode with only official plugins enabled. i haven’t seen any console errors either, which is odd.
Desktop view
it blocks the editing - the pencil doesn’t work, nor does the edit button from the edit history modal. i get that editing a post that has been replied to isn’t ideal, but i like to copy the actual post from the editor to start a new convo (or interrupt the bot to add new information).
can’t switch to markdown composer - it is stuck in RTE mode and the button does nothing it’s the preview screen that isn’t there and no button to show it.
when i try to quote the bot it seems to break the sidebar somewhat
on meta - it inserts a giant gap and sometimes disappears; on my forum, the sidebar always disappears
a few times, quoting also locked me into the bot convo so that the return to forum button was broken
quotes also sometimes disappear in the composer as soon as i start typing
Mobile view (chrome, firefox and safari)
scrolling is buggy and sometimes doesn’t seem to work
occasionally the whole thing locks up and i have to exit browser
Additional info
desktop view latest firefox seems less buggy than chrome and safari
and I got a PR ready with a few fixes and improvements based on what you’ve outlined here:
Once that’s merged that should fix the inability to edit as well as those mobile bugs.
Regarding this:
This was ultimately a design decision. RTE is intended to be the primary way to use this docked composer, however, if you prefer markdown, it’s available but due to lack of space we’re not including the preview. When I first implemented it, I had a button to toggle on/off the preview but since this was essentially the same as the RTE toggle, I removed it.
Also regarding these:
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to reproduce these. If you could still repro after all these changes could you let me know.
ok that’s fine, i just wasn’t sure if lack of previewer was intended behaviour. as long as i have my markdown it’s fine, i don’t need the previewer of course (can just toggle it like you say)
great work. i’ll mess around with it more a bit over the next few days. thanks again! have a good weekend!
quoting doesn’t do anything - (but copy quote and paste works)
file uploads after first post fail.
the sidebar issues appear to be gone for me now and i’m not getting lockups at all.
i really like the docked composer tho, and love that i can use it and resize it while the bot is doing it’s thing too. i went to use the bot this afternoon on another instance i have that doesn’t have it yet and i immediately looked for it and realized i missed it. excellent work Keegan / ai-team
i think my biggest complaint is that i don’t like having to shift + enter to go to next line. i still keep hitting enter quite a lot and having to hit pause. the behavior change from regular composer still feels inconsistent. (fwiw it gets me on chat-gpt every time too )
after i did a rebuild today, the quoting is fixed!
only remaining bug i have is not being able to upload after the first post, but i have only been using in desktop mode this weekend.
I’ve gated the Docked Composer behind an upcoming changes:
as we work through polishing things up more.
This has gotten me once or twice. I want to let it sit for a while to see if it’s just something that needs to be gotten used to, but will revisit if it seems to be more frequent of an issue.
I’ve also pushed a fix for the uploads bug:
Please let me know how that goes! Thanks so much for your testing and feedback
the behavior change from regular composer still feels inconsistent. (fwiw it gets me on chat-gpt every time too 
)