The most weakest point of nodebb

Bri

@nodeber well, let's be clear here, you think it (markdown) is not the best solution. As Julian mentioned there is the redactor composer for people who need a traditional WSIWYG

PitaJ

@Bri I think you misunderstand them. They want to be able to have users switch between composers.

yariplus

@Schamper had mentioned it briefly a while ago. An API or abstraction layer, like we have for the databases, might be a nice feature for the composer module. So that plugins that are compatible with one editor would be 99% compatible with the other, without developer intervention.

exodo

@yariplus said in The most weakest point of nodebb:

@Schamper had mentioned it briefly a while ago. An API or abstraction layer, like we have for the databases, might be a nice feature for the composer module. So that plugins that are compatible with one editor would be 99% compatible with the other, without developer intervention.

Agree. That's best solution

julian

Switching editors is not possible, since we save raw data into the database, that is, we save raw markdown in the case of the default composer, and html in the case of redactor.

They are incompatible and do not translate well between each other.

PitaJ

@julian also, editing a post submitted with markdown wouldn't work well with redactor and vice versa.

exodo

@PitaJ said in The most weakest point of nodebb:

@julian also, editing a post submitted with markdown wouldn't work well with redactor and vice versa.

I didnt have problem with editing md post on redactor i think

exodo

@julian said in The most weakest point of nodebb:

Switching editors is not possible, since we save raw data into the database, that is, we save raw markdown in the case of the default composer, and html in the case of redactor.

They are incompatible and do not translate well between each other.

I dont think the option to user-select is that important
Is more imporant making both composer not plugin dependant like default composer already is
Doubt anyone would choose redactor and lose polls, and all others plugins for his community

PitaJ

@exodo redactor doesn't have a live preview for markdown. Besides, it's mostly trying to edit redactor output with the markdown editor that's the issue. If redactor could output markdown, that might work, but then other things like bbcode, etc would break.

But yes, I agree that there should be an agnostic composer API.

Bruce Lee

Yes, I second this.

As a developer, I love MD as it is pretty easy to use once you master it. However, the layman out there are not familiar with MD.

As such, I support the notion that the stock editor should be WYSIWYG instead of markdown.

AOKP

With all respect to the topic, the wekeast point of NodeBB is its unfriendly monetization options for webmasters, which keeps several people away from it. Missing app support is also something to mention, but for most webmasters money goes first.