Summary outcome of the debate on wysiwyg?

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Continuing the discussion from Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown?:

The above discussion was pretty busy and the thread is now closed with some comment about a proof of concept. To save me having to read all 77 posts, could somebody kindly give me a summary of the next steps? Don’t want to kick start the discussion again - just a summary of where Discourse is going on this subject and maybe a time frame?

If there is a vote, then a BIG vote for a wysiwyg option. As a programmer and reader of Coding Horror, I’m well aware of the back story, positives etc but usability and familiarity for 180,000 non-technical www.camra.org.uk members is very high on our requirements.

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I think Jeff put it very clearly here:

I have a high(ish) traffic, yet low user count, non-tech forum and the editor has not been a concern for my audience. And yes, they have raised lots of other concerns, but I don’t think that the editor/wysiwyg thing was never brought up. The new forum was constructed as an open community project, so they all had opportunities to contribute (and they did).

We migrated from SMF.

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If that’s the case, then you should be voting yourself away from Discourse – very far, far away :wink:

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@Rob_Nicholson

How far from WYSIWYG the Discourse actually is today?

You have the UI buttons for basic message formatting, and a real-time updated preview panel. So in practice What You See Is What You Get. Out of the box.

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I’m sad you feel that way Jeff. I’ll pass that back to the evaluation team - basically no plan to implement a Google Mail like interface?

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There are zero plans for that in the forseeable future. If pure WYSIWYG is an absolute bedrock must-have requirement, the sooner you look elsewhere, the happier you will be.

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This is actually one of the biggest concerns raised.

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This was really all summarized in the earlier discussion, so feel free to read it for specifics. No reason to duplicate it all here again.