Post by @stefano
Everyone loves text formatting, but not everyone loves Markdown.
We've got you covered.
I'm merging a branch that includes a WYSIWYG editor, which will translate the output directly into Markdown.
No more tags to remember when writing your next post (or blog post), just a convenient, predictable editor.
What do you think?
I think it’s a good idea to have this feature. It’s not for everyone, and that’s fine. What might be really helpful for some users would be if you can switch the view while you are editing to display: markup, rendered, or both.
Personally I like markup languages better than WYSIWYG. Markdown is not my favorite markup language. I think there are better markup languages. However I guess switching to a different markup language would be challenging.
But regardless of which markup language is being used I would like to see the rendering before I post as it’s so easy to make a mistake and post something that renders totally different from what you intended.
@kasperd@westergaard.social yes, you can switch from one view to another, or just continue with plain markdown.
I know there are other markup languages, but markdown is more or less the standard in the fediverse, so that's why we decided to support it.