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I actually reversed your display:none; in the old editor as well ;)

Let me know if and when this is picked up on your end so I can possibly remove the overwrites again. However atm there are much bigger priorities so please don"t focus on this one.

Hey @Thomas,

I just checked with the old version of the editor, there it also strips these features at 767px.

Great to see that you already worked on this yourself, however I understand that you rather like us to offer this ourselves. As I’ve said the team is looking into it, will share an update on it asap so you know what we are doing with this.

There is also an issue with mentioning, especially in the backend. Before, when typing the "@’, you would see a short list of all users who have been active in that topic. Now the list is very long and has all users in all of time and existence. In the frontend is doesn"t seem to happen that way. 

Usernames with a space in it seem to be an issue too, the mention-menu disappears after hitting the spacebar. 

I assumed what@Yoeri meant here was that an update on staging would be released with the fixes the developers were working on (I couldn"t imagine you"d release an unfinished feature to the masses). Therefore I didn"t realize how urgent an update of the custom code was. Also, I asked for help for fixing this and got no response. 
My colleague was just as surprised as I was to see the editor live monday evening, but thankfully he quickly provided a fix :) 

I surely accept criticism on the fact that this has not been prioritized correctly on our side, this is something we can improve. 

It is not the case that we do not follow up on the feedback shared here.

My bad, I should have been more specific. You settled on releasing this version of the editor on production instead of fixing the bugs before releasing it and verifying that customers - at least the ones who provide feedback - are ready for it.

Thanks for elaborating, @Jurgen!

While I understand that you reported this as an issue, for us this (limited text editing features on mobile viewports) was categorized as a change request, not as a bug. Actual bugs with the editor (e.g. selecting text on specific mobile viewports) have been logged and categorized accordingly to their actual impact. We would not release an improvement if we see that the impact is affecting all users or the core functionality. In this case, we identified two bugs which were not critical enough to stop the release from happening:

• issues with selecting text on certain combinations of mobile device & browser
• discrepancies in spacing / line-height in edit view & published post

We acutally did work on some things and released them on-the-go to your staging environment (e.g. better image upload, localization, etc.), and even send an email last thursday to ensure that everybody is informed and can take action until the release is performed.

Once more, I acknowledge that your feedback could have been a signal to us that this change (being more strict with mobile viewport borders) would have a bigger impact on the end user experience, however we ultimately did not regard it as having an impact of this scale. Surely a learning we ideally would have liked to do without the ramification on your users’ sentiment.

Now about the custom code:

I’m sorry to hear that we failed to help you adjusting the code to work in the new editor. 😕 Usually we acutally provide this extra service with no issues, however we are always pointing out that we cannot assure that your custom code will work once we update something, as stated in the TPS page in the Control environment:

Note: We recommend inviting a professional web developer to work with third-party scripts. Insert scripts at your own risk, and proceed with extreme caution —  inSided support won’t be able to assist you with third-party scripts issues. If you want to test your code before publishing we strongly recommend you to use your staging environment first.

Next time you feel left alone with issues around scripts (or in general, really), please drop me a private message and I promise I will help you out as good as I can! :)

Hi @Julian, I had send it to the support address before posting it here. Cristina replied that the dev team is on it. I think they were able to reproduce it:

We have noticed, indeed that in Control the @-mentions does not display a list of contributors anymore, and that usernames containing a space cannot be selected as the action is stopped. The dev team has already started working on fixing these issues. 

Hi @Jasper,

thanks for flagging this. We are in the process of deploying a fix for the issues around @-mentions and “space” in usernames. I am not sure about the other issue you are reporting, I cannot reproduce it. I will test and get back to you on this, maybe you can test once I have confirmed that the first fix for the issues around mentioning has been published.

I’ve also gathered feedback and questions from our moderators, super users and myself:

1. Emoticons don’t always seem to be converted from text to icon. Well provide examples when we experience it again
2. The new editor has a complete new behaviour regarding hitting “enter”. Formerly a new line was started, never a new paragraph. Now hitting “enter” creates a new paragraph, while hitting “shift+enter” starts a new line. That’s ok for us, but: The margin-bottom for paragraphs is 8px, which is not much. Are you planning on increasing the margin-bottom globally?
3. Font colors can be set in the editor in Control. Are you planning on letting customers configure the chooseable colors? Because then every customer could define own “corporate” colors to create a color palette that fits the company’s style guide.
4. File Uploads: Until recently every customer could decide whether to activate file uploads for their community. We opted out of it because of data protection issues. Will we be able to opt out of the file upload function again soon? We really, really, really don’t want our users to upload private files (such as invoices or contracts) to the public.
5. Mobile view: We are currently gathering information what formatting functionalities are a must for our community users to have on mobile and we’ll provide the list soon.
6. Default text: In the old editor we could place a default text within the text field (via phrases) to give users some guidance about what to write and what not to write. This is missing now. Can you please add the default text again and make it configurable via phrases?
7. Submit button left instead of right: What is the idea behind the new position?

Thanks for the feedback, @Julian !
1. This is strange because there was no problem before the change of the text editor.

2. I asked the superusers to test again to see if the problem recurs.

3. This happens in all topics. We can"t go any lower than the nickname below

4. Okay for the tabs. Emoticons did not send properly but i"ll ask superuses if this still happens. For the rest, here is what appears on mobile (iPhone and Samsung) :

I’m also noticing the above issues – the italics has been particularly frustrating – I’ve tried many ways to get text to appear Roman (non-italics) after using italics, and it takes me minutes of trial and error before I get it to work.