Discourse is rolling out this improvement which you should notice when you go to write a post, I enabled it. Feel free to comment here
We have been working on a new rich text editor mode for our composer so that it’s easier to write on Discourse. We’re now ready to start testing it out to get more feedback from our community on this feature! Our implementation builds upon the...
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TT
July 8, 2025, 5:25pm
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I hate it, so far. Change
I mean… you could toggle it back to markdown. I guess if people couldn’t wrap their brains around markdown, they likely couldn’t find the toggle button. So maybe default to richtext is the right way to do it, though I still wish the default remains markdown.
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Don’t like rich text default.
TT
July 8, 2025, 10:20pm
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hansioux:
you could toggle it back to markdown ***also don’t like that when I quote people it automatically puts the cursor inside the quote. But yeah, I did eventually notice the toggle and hit that so it solved one problem. I’m sure there will be more that I dislike. Sometimes it just takes a minute to get used to change***
Oh, posts still can’t be empty
Tried to see if rich text composer will allow me to copy and paste ruby annotations. The answer is no…
However, markdown can use the ruby HTML tags. That’s something that didn’t used to work.
東京 ( とうきょう
siám-siám-sih-sih閃閃熠熠 sè-lia̍p細粒 tshinn星
tàu-té到底 lí你 sī是 siánn-mi̍h-sinn啥物生
sè-kài世界 tíng-thâu頂頭 hiah-nī遐爾 kuân懸
tshin-tshiūnn親像 thinn-tíng天頂 tsi̍t-lia̍p一粒 suān鑽
siám-siám-sih-sih閃閃熠熠 sè-lia̍p細粒 tshinn星
tàu-té到底 lí你 sī是 siánn-mi̍h-sinn啥物生
Did this used to work? I don’t remember it working.
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I don’t remember seeing it!
I just realized I actually used it here in the past:
Got this from one of @greves videos. I think I changed the 2nd tone from 好好 to 苦苦. I’m terrible at tonal sandhi but this table really helped me out.
edit: I decided to change example word for tone 3 and 8 to more negative words to go along with the theme.
1 陰平
2 陰上
3 陰去
4 陰入
5 陽平
6 陽上
7 陽去
8 陰入
-ptk
-h
-ptk
-h
Oo-oo烏烏
khóo-khóo苦苦
tshàu-tshàu臭臭
siap-siap澀澀
phoh-phoh粕粕
tâm-tâm澹澹
bān-bān慢慢
ku̍t-ku̍t滑滑
po̍h-po̍h薄薄
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