Official announcements and happiness!
Don't waste your time fixing this bug...
I admit it, I am not a fan of your choice to use a Markdown editor... I like Imzy!!! I want Imzy to succeed!!! I am telling you this because I feel the choice of a Markdown editor will be a serious impediment to Imzy's potential success. Markdown is much too chryptic for average users... to say nothing of neophytes... I have 40 years of software development experience and I find it cumbersome and chryptic. A WYSIWYG editor with a back door to HTML would be much better in my view!!!
That said, if you are going to go this way, the buttons providing easier access to markdown functionality should, at the very least, work correctly. The link button has got serious problems... The next two images illustrate the problem...
Click the link button... the markdown code is inserted NOT on the highlighted word, but in the text at the nearest point to the cursor at the time the link button is clicked. FYI- The same thing happens with the image button.
The title of this article was chosen to get your attention... but I am absolutely serious... Your time would be much better spent converting to a properly functioning WYSIWYG editor with a back door to HTML.
ON ANOTHER MATTER (also a bug)... I got about half of this post written, and then realized I needed to change the community from "Mal's World" (my community) to the Imzy community... Upon making that change I discovered that the entire contents of this edit window was permanently erase, requiring me to rewrite what I had already spent some time writting.
Cheers... With the best of intentions, Mal




We agree with you. We want to spend the time to develop a first class editor for posts and comments ... BUT ... to do it right is a real investment (I think medium has a whole team on it and they've taken years).
WOW!!! That was fast! Thanks Dan!!!
Right?! That's one thing I've noticed, almost immediate responses from tech! It's fantastic!
Yes! The fast and predictable responses from staff is something I value highly, one of many things to love about Imzy.
Happy to see this after nodding my head at Mal's post.
Some people like Markdown. You can use it as an editor on Tumblr if you want, so there's clearly a market for keeping it as an option. But yeah... rich text ftw.
Never used it as the web design work I've done hasn't required commenting, but here is an open source WYSIWYG Editor.
Link!
I like that editor!
I'd like to have a plain HTML editor rather than a rich text one. I often crosspost content from DreamWidth (using the HTML editor), and would like for things like lists, links, italics, and boldings to just carry over without first doing some Ctrl+H in a text editor.
Markdown is okay, and I've never encountered the bugs mentioned. Rich text is IME very screw-up-prone, and I appreciate why you haven't gone that route.
So would I, or at least have the option of one. I know HTML, I know how to make it work, I'd like to be able to cut through all the Markdown/WYSIWYG nonsense and just write plain HTML.
Rich text editors kill every device I use except my laptop, so I'm wary of them.
Actually, literally the only things I want from markdown that don't exist here are underlines and the ability to have more than one blank space between paragraphs.
Most editors I've seen let you switch to see the HTML if that's what you want. Sometimes you need to cause it's the only way to find out wtf is making the text look like that. ;)
This, this. Embed codes are all provided in HTML and I'll almost never crosspost stuff I want to if embed codes don't work.
I could be wrong, but I think Markdown understands plain HTML. Is that not true of this editor in particular? I haven't tried and I don't want to white-noise any comm with test posts. :/
<a href="https://www.imzy.com/mals_world">I don't think so...</a>
BTW- You can use the eyeball to check out your experiments... then delete any "white noise" you want to get rid of...
Cheers, Mal
Ooh, thanks for the tip, that's helpful. Sad that this editor doesn't translate the HTML. Maybe only github-flavored Markdown reads HTML. :(
<b>Sad Face</b> :D
Just want to chime in with a disputing opinion to say that I adore Markdown--even my text editors of choice use it--and I want it to stay.
It's just so clean and simple compared to HTML. (Which, yes, I can use). And very popular with bloggers and the clean design generations. It was a genuine draw to me that Imzy uses Markdown.
Oh, wow, I have had the exact same bug a couple times and I was half-convinced I was just being stupid and accidentally clicking elsewhere.
Thankfully, the markdown for links is really easy --it's shorter and faster than html-- so I ended up memorizing. But yeah, hey, bug.
I've never heard of Markdown. I did notice when I tried to tab at the beginning of a paragraph that I got unexpected (by me... all ya'll who know Markdown are grinning knowingly right now, aren't you) results. Is there a good resource for using Markdown?
Here is the official guide to using Markdown on Imzy.
(The mods should maybe do something to make that more visible, because it feels like people are still going "how do I Markdown" just as much now as they were before it was posted.)
Thank you. I am still learning how to find things, too.
I agree with basically everything above this comment (I'm fine with Markdown, though I also usually default to HTML) but I wanted to also compliment @MalamuteMan's icon especially if that is his dog.
Yes, Rue... That is Arlo... Unfortunately we lost Arlo, at the age of 14.5 years, just about 3 years ago... I've had 7 Malamutes over the course of my life... A wonderful breed... I love the temperament, I love that they don't bark... more of something like "Arroooooo"... I was drawn to them because they are the domestic breed that looks most like a wolf. I have several articles and comments about my Mals... There is a comment with photos in this Imzy article about our current Mal... Bandit... more affectionately known as Bandy (a 120lb. female).
And here is an article (on Newsvine) about Kibo, another of our dogs, immortalized in bronze in front of the University of Washington football stadium.
Oh, that's what was happening with my code button earlier. I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong.