Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by superbaconman on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:48PM (#21590699)

I stopped using confluence the moment I realized the markdown editor was removed. I don't care so much about the flavor, but there's something very annoying about needing to get fancy with the way I edit text to preserve formatting.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by kstrauser on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:57PM (#21591057)

Same here. I'd made some nice (and quite simple) tooling to parse docstrings out of a Python project and turn them into Markdown that I could copy-and-paste into Confluence. It was so convenient to run something like "make documents" to basically compile the project's documentation from inspecting the project itself! But then Confluence broke their editor by making it WYSIWYG-only. And in response, I broke Confluence by convincing our CTO to ditch that now worthless documentation system for something else.

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by alexis_fr on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:10AM (#21592032)

What is something else? I’m interested, if it’s available for download (not cloud).

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Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible by HarveyKandola on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:13AM (#21594155)

Been working on Documize[0] for a while now and we get plenty of Confluence people moving over.

Open source core supporting WYSIWYG, Markdown, Code and more.

[0] https://github.com/documize/community

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