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 wan…

I think Jeff put it very clearly here: [image] Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown? Feature There is 0.0% probability of that happening, the technical hurdles are quite severe. Lots of assumptions about the pipeline. So I feel this is a harmful fan…

[image] Rob_Nicholson: If there is a vote, then a BIG vote for a wysiwyg option If that’s the case, then you should be voting yourself away from Discourse – very far, far away :wink:

@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.

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?

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.

[image] ljpp: a real-time updated preview panel This is actually one of the biggest concerns raised.

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.

Discourse is now shipping an experimental WYSIWYG composer :confetti_ball: [image] Test our new composer! megaphoneAnnouncements 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 …

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Discourse is now shipping an experimental WYSIWYG composer

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Rich Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) Support	3	1834	March 12, 2025
Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown? Feature markdown	77	19205	March 12, 2025
Plans for WYSIWYG? Feature	2	1680	February 11, 2016
WYSIWYG Plugin (again) Feature completed	28	9740	March 12, 2025
WYSIWYG composer Feature	2	1377	November 9, 2015

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