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: [afbeelding] 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 harmfu…

[afbeelding] 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.

[afbeelding] 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: [afbeelding] 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 read…

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sam (Sam Saffron) 12 maart 2025 om 23:41 10

Discourse is now shipping an experimental WYSIWYG composer

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Rich Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) Support	2	1838	12 maart 2025
Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown? Feature markdown	76	19261	12 maart 2025
Plans for WYSIWYG? Feature	1	1684	11 februari 2016
WYSIWYG Plugin (again) Feature completed	27	9757	12 maart 2025
WYSIWYG composer Feature	1	1377	9 november 2015

Summary outcome of the debate on wysiwyg?

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