# Unable to set default to markdown mode

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-set-default-to-markdown-mode/379243
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** composer, fixed
**Created:** [August 18, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-set-default-to-markdown-mode/379243 "2025-08-18T11:49:01Z")
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### Author: ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-set-default-to-markdown-mode/379243/9 "2025-08-20T03:00:16Z")

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> [@GaurangBlaze](#):
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> Each time I apply the change, I am prompted “Would you like to apply this change historically? This will change preferences for 15 existing users.” and I click Yes. Even then, users being served the rich editor. Is this a known bug?

I tried to reproduce this today with no luck. I do have one question though – are users refreshing the browser after you change this? Because if not, we still have their old user preference data in the browser in ember, so the new preference will not be used yet.

For this to work as expected I did this:

- Checked on user A that editor was toggled to rich mode
- As admin, I changed the default to markdown mode and applied for all users
- As user A, reloaded the page and reopened the editor, and saw that it was in markdown mode

If I didn’t reload on step 3 there, I would still see rich mode.

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