富文本格式（所见即所得）

[Stephen]

嘿，Sam，

已经有几个话题在讨论这个问题了。简而言之，Markdown 是 Discourse 的固有特性，目前（据我所知）没有计划提供所见即所得（WYSIWYG）选项。

Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown?

I just saw an interview with Michael Pryor of trello: At one point he says: We added markdown in Trello which in retrospect, was a mistake because it’s a developer centric feature in a non developer focused product. We overcame it by adding guidance on how to use markdown within the app, but users sometimes still get confused. I’m curious to know what the feeling out there is about the use of markdown in Discourse. Am I the only one who thinks discourse would appeal to many more people i…

WYSIWYG Plugin (again)

Continuing the discussion from Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown?: I checked with the founders and they are ok with us restarting this thread with a view to discussing the development of a plugin to deliver some form of WYSIWYG post editing in Discourse. Bearing in mind @sam’s & @codinghorror’s previous comments that the core team would not consider undertaking such development for the foreseeable future, what remains is the opportunity for the rest of us to get together and pr…

如果无法使用 Markdown 且没有所见即所得编辑器对你来说是完全无法接受的，那你可能需要考虑其他产品了。

如果你需要更详细的解释，了解其中的挑战，这篇文章可能会有所帮助：

Rethinking the Composer - lowering the bar

It is extremely difficult, as the code makes deep assumptions about the Markdown pipeline throughout. I would estimate a budget of around $100,000 - $120,000 USD to make the WYSIWYG change and 1 year of full time developer work. (Or two full time devs for 6 months). If you would like to fund it, contact us directly. Another way to look at it — this is like saying I prefer MySQL, can’t you guys just switch your database from Postgres to MySQL?