Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/The new editor is an abomination

I want to say that I really don't like the new WYSIWYG editor to the point where its very existence bothers me. I think it's signicant that Wikipedia still exclusively uses the traditional source editor.

It is easy to think that WYSIWYG is easier and more intuitive than WYSIWYM, but in this case here that is far from the truth. The new editor is a UI disaster of incredible proportions that makes everything difficult and opaque in the name of pandering to the stupid people demographic, badly. Simple things, such as making a new bullet point, have been turned into a nightmare of bad usability. In particular, the buttons for doing that kind of thing are at the top of the page while much of editing is done a lot further down, making the buttons inaccessible without scrolling back and forth, which is complete idiocy. This kind of thing gives the entire wiki an unprofessional feel. The new editor makes simple things hard and hard things either undiscoverable and very hard or downright impossible. I don't know which because of the undiscoverability factor.

Wiki notation really isn't hard at all. A lot of people can deal with it, such as everyone who edits TV Tropes. I think there are very few people who can't get WYSIWYM but get and tolerate the worst WYSIWYG editor in the world.

The new editor also doesn't work in every browser, which means that when a person new to this particular wiki clicks the Edit link, he will find that his action has no effect. I think this kind of thing will be very effective in keeping those people from editing the wiki, or even returning. After all, there is no error message, so it is easy to think that All The Tropes doesn't allow them, or anyone, to edit pages. Not everyone will think to click the other edit link.

So please purge the new editor from All The Tropes, with crosses and holy water if necessary.