dreamwidth gripes

[felicitygs]

Almost all of these have to do with the rich-text editor, because I don't know why the fuck it's included if it's going to work like it's from the mid to late 00s and not like something people are using in the yool2k18.

• when i keyboard shortcut for any of font modifications (bold, italics, underline), it doesn't register. I crtl+b and the button lights up and then I start typing and it goes back to normal font and i fucking hate this this is probably my number 1 complaint with the rich-text editor, because it is actively fucking detrimental to how i like to type fic. the fucking back-ass-wards korean blogging platform i use can manage this, why is an english based site doing worse than a korean site in terms of ui??????????
• the above point is a legit bitch, because korean sites are some of the most user unfriendly sites i have ever had to work with and are still mostly made for internet!! explorer!!!!
• no one goes BACK to add their emphasis binch!!!!!!!!!!!!
• hitting space while also holding shift one second automatically fucking up the font size so it goes back to TOO TINY TO READ this is not an issue with any other blogging platform i've ever used
• crtl+k after highlighting text DOES NOT bring up the link insert menu and there's no keyboard shortcut presented when i hover over the icon and honestly that is my SECOND biggest complaint because i have pretty much never met any other blogging site that doesn't use crtl+k to insert links
• random continuing to keep formatting after i turned it off, so i have to go back and undo it
• not having an intuitive way to remove background color elements of copy-pasted text, so i can preserve the italics/bold of things i'm archiving
• but there sure is a way to change the color of text!!! which!!! sometimes only applies to one paragraph
• honestly this richtext editor is such fucking trash i would literally rather not have the option at all instead of this half-assed thing less userfriendly than standard korean website ui

don't even tell me oh just use the html editor because that's not the point! the point is if you are going to provide users with a rich text editor it had better work to the *minimum* standards of most rich text editors, not like it's from the year 1999. i hate it so much, and i've had two days of archiving fic/writing little ficlets to know that i'm only going to hate it more and more as time goes by.

it's user unfriendly and bad

Comments

[gold_pen_leaps]

yeah, I hate the rich-text editor too

[pennie_dreadful]

So rte is still nonfunctional, huh? you'd think after ten+ years they'd have fixed that by now. tbh I think it must be a glitch in the original LJ code because their rte sucked donkey balls too. When I ended up with a post that was entirely in underlined italics and red, to boot, I said fuck this and learned to use the html editor, and have used it exclusively for... some time now...in fact when I first started using Tumblr I had to hold myself back from typing html formatting just automatically.

[felicitygs]

Yeah, it's not that I don't know how to do html? I majored in comp sci and did programming support for both a web interace and a bunch of other stuff for a few years, and have dabbled off and on with making my own themes. I'm specifically this mad about it because how I type prose when having to also use html markup is entirely different from how I generally do when using an rte.

For a platform built around writing, the fact the rte has apparently been this way for a decade is not at all encouraging.

[terresdebrume]

Yeah the rte is kind of lumpy (I personally mostly just have trouble with the cut function, honestly) though I'm used to it so it doesn't even bother me that much, tbh.

As a good news though! DW is apparently working on a more-similar-to-tumblr rte which you can, I think, use as a beta feature... I didn't read the post about it on dreamwidth-help in depth because I didn't really feel like I needed it (I tend to copy-past fic from a file, which means the formatting stays, and I don't really format my personal posts a lot) but I'm pretty sure this should be accessible to you if you'd like.

[felicitygs]

OMG thaaaank you!!!