Feedback on New Editor

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    upinvermont · Member ·

    Sorry if this thread is already out there. I searched.

    Anyway, it’s great that WordPress is innovating. Keep it up. My own feedback on the new editor is very negative though. I don’t like it. Unfortunately, it reminds me of Gnome3 (on the Linux side of the world), in which “simplification” has resulted in complication and extra work. I find the new editor is not as convenient to use. I prefer the much simpler “classic view” category checkboxes to the much less intuitive drop down (it also doesn’t show me all my categories but I assume the new editor is still in beta, if not alpha?). The new editor keeps too much “hidden”.

    My only request is that WordPress does *not* force us to migrate to the *not* improved “posting experience” that is beep boop mode. I much prefer the better “posting experience” of classic mode and I hope WordPress allows us to keep that option. If it ain’t broke, why fix it?

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    timethief · Member ·

    I’m just wondering if you have read this sticky post at the top of the support forums https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-post-editor-improvements?replies=10

    The goal is to create an in-house editor that rivals the classic editor so we choose to use it instead. Well IMNHO they have a long way to go on this new editor which has been under development for about a year now.

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    upinvermont · Member ·

    Yes. Thanks. I saw that and also that it was closed to comment.

    The new editor is unusable for my own blog (though perhaps not for others?) and I worry that they’re going to force its use on us. Bad enough that it defaults to Beep Boop. That’s messed up a couple of my posts (due to not carrying over changes).

    I’ve also never liked the new Stats page (which Beep Boop seems to be imitiating). I don’t know why they feel as though it’s necessary to “navigate away” (if that’s the right way to put it?), from the dashboard? It just increases the amount of navigation, keystrokes, and mouse pointing that I have to do. On a slower internet connection, it’s also altogether slower. IMHO, this flat/minimalist trend is a like a bad lolipop for a lot of developers.

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