Board Thread:Darwinian delights/@comment-188432-20131015000929/@comment-118323-20131122202253

Mewiet wrote: I understood what you meant, but I didn't see your first post until after I'd already replied to Shambala.

1. I use Google Chrome because this wikia doesn't work on IE. (It used to, but it no longer does. Anyway...) The editor is very slow, so when I hit the edit button, it initially freezes my screen. Sometimes as I'm editing it also randomly seizes up too.

2. The first day it was active, I kept trying to add links and I would get as far as highlighting, selecting the page I wanted to link to, and then it wouldn't do anything. No matter what I clicked it kept deselecting my link. I became frustrated and started looking for alternate ways to add in my links and that's when I realized there was a Source Editor option, which presented its own problems.

3. In Source Editor, instead of bringing up just the edit section you're trying to edit (for example, I was working on just the Mels section of the River Song page yesterday), it brings up coding for the entire page and you have to painstakingly scroll through to find the section you want. (This is really irritating if you're working on something in the middle.) Worse still, if you want to make sure that something looks right before your submit it, there's no preview option. You have to go back to the visual editor and if it's incorrect, then you're forced to go back to Source Editor and start hunting for your section all over again.

Thanks for your detailed feedback! As CzechOut said, this feature is in beta and all feedback will help us prioritize what we work on next. We certainly don't want the tool to get in anyone's way if they prefer source editing, but ultimately we hope the VE makes your more productive and more confident in your edits. Source editing will always be available via user preferences.

As for your first point — we have some time set aside to address some of the performance issues associated with the VE.

Links — I haven't been able to reproduce the problem you're reporting. The only three ways to remove a link are to click the trashcan icon in the link tool, highlight the word and click the "remove formatting" button in the toolbar, or delete the entire word from the document. If links are not updating or being removed in any other way, please write into Special:Contact so we can file a detailed bug report.

The Source editor — great feedback on this. The current VE version is kind of a 'sledgehammer' — there's no toolbar or way to find what you're looking for, other than by using Ctrl+F. We'll be monitoring what people are using the source editor to do and making changes to the VE and the source tool to solve for this.

Keep the feedback coming!