Is there a way to make the upload more appealing in this window? Instead of the text here, could we do something more professional, like showing a small preview of the uploaded image? Ignore the AI Caption [Screenshot 2025-01-01 190327]

We’re actively developing a WYSIWYG / rich text composer which will render images and other formatting in real time so that it’s much easier to understand what your final post will look like without being a Markdown wizard. Here’s a little sneak peek of how things are looking so far, expect more up…

Currently this is a markdown editor, so no. There has been talk of an enhanced composer being built at some point and is on the roadmap I believe.

Oh cool, that would truly enhance the look :))

Of course, you could use the preview section on the right. But Discourse doesn’t have this kind of editor yet. There are some plugins that do a WYSIWYG editor, but most are broken.

Trix editor seems a great choice, oh yeah after your comment I just had a look at some plugins and you are right those are broken :slight_smile:

That’s a great step for ease of use. Will it be a standalone library that can be integrated into other projects than Discourse?

Woohoo! It looks dope, eagerly waiting :))

Hope wysiwyg will live alongside current approach of having two separate windows for markdown and preview. I really dislike inability to see the actual markdown and syntax of a complex post. Not-optional wysiwyg can be detrimental to users who are fluent in markdown and sites that allow bbcode and …

[image] Coconut Flavored Quark: Will it be a standalone library that can be integrated into other projects than Discourse? No, we aren’t building this as a standalone library. We are utilizing ProseMirror 's library to build the composer specifically for Discourse to support our unique featur…

Discourse is now shipping an experimental WYSIWYG composer :confetti_ball: [image] Test our new composer on Meta! Announcements We have been working on a new rich text editor mode for our composer so that it’s easier to write on Discourse. We’re now ready to start testing…

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Discourse is now shipping an experimental WYSIWYG composer

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