Feelings on the new editor
Well I guess since I'm back now I'll chime in on how I feel about the beta editor.
It kinda sucks
With the legacy markdown editor it's possible to mainly use markdown and then use HTML as a fallback. This is a very smooth experience. Those viewing on the blog page may have noticed that HTML up there sports an abbr tag letting you know what HTML means. This isn't something you can do with pure markdown and also appears to be the kind of thing you can't even do with HTML in the new editor as the supported HTML has been restricted to a very narrow subset of the available tags.
And I understand restricting tags. Having like <script> or <canvas> available in the dashboard would be a nightmare, and even subtle things like form elements or allowing tags to hijack the taborder attribute could cause problems. But like can I please have semantic elements like <cite> or <time> or <figure>? I still think about this as a blogging platform first and a social media platform second.
I realize there's technical requirements that I have no idea about that seem to be hinted at with the "content block" limits. And that really limits my ability to say any of this is constructive.
Feature Requests in a nutshell
Let me use markdown and html in the same editor.
Have a semi-wysiwyg editor for markdown+html like you get in Obsidian
Let me use some of the semantic tags, even if they get stripped out for the dashboard.
PS
I don't super resent the neue post format. Like what the fuck is a "quote post" or "conversation post" lol why is that different than a text post? Shame old themes will need to be patched though.
Also much love to jv for all his work and the work of any other staff on the new features.
