Why the editor functionality was changed?

[Steven]

The composer is currently being (completely) rewritten by the Discourse Team, there still are some bugs but it will be fixed soon

Help us test the rewritten Composer

We’ve been using pagedown as our rich composer for years. Unfortunately, we’d outgrown it in a few ways: It’s very hard to extend to add features. It hasn’t been updated in years. It had implementations of features we didn’t like or found buggy like undo/redo. We forked the editor and removed them but that just left us with a lot of dead code. It had zero tests. Modifying it meant we could be taking a detour to regression town U.S.A. We made the decision to rewrite our composer us…