Our new text editor is now available on all communities!

It sees that delete/backspace is not working in all cases?

I was unable to delete the Spoiler section  (I’m using Version 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (32-bit))

Our community user (Firefox version 70.0 (32-bit))was unable to delete even a larger section:

 

@Yoeri & @Julian what’s up with this one?

I know you suggested that 

“The best way to delete a spoiler or (nested) quote is to select the entire box (Clicking the grey resize icon in the top left of a quote or spoiler will select it. Selections can be recognized by a 2px blue line. ) and hit the backspace/delete key on your keyboard. See the spoiler below for an animated gif”

but in our community we seem to have quite a few cases in which users would like to edit the quote - in these cases the quoted comment is usually long and complex - therefore it’s simpler to have only the relevant part as a quote :)

The same principle applies to edit larger and complex quotes that contain multiple elements (quotes, spoilers, images, videos, quotes in quotes, etc.). Each element represents a box that can be individually selected. 

When selecting elements by dragging your mouse cursor you have less control over how to delete or edit elements within a quote (because you can select multiple elements at the same time like your last screenshot)

Here’s how I edited your quote which contains multiple elements:

 

Hope this helps :)

Hi @Yoeri ! Thanks for your quick reply :)

I don’t know if this is a language barrier - but I’m not really sure if we’re discussing the same issue here.

Our issue is that a user might only want to quote one single sentence of a long topic - meaning that deleting an element is not an option when the user wants to be able to edit the text within that element. And that seems to be impossible for some users as back space or delete don’t erase text.

Small update

Delivered

• NEW From now on new links that point to a webpage outside of your community (outgoing links) will open in a new tab, links that point to a page inside your community will still open in the same tab

Soon

• Polls will be re-enabled this week 

Feedback on previous posts

Is this what you mean? Chopping a larger quote (I used the post above) into a single sentence? :)

I do experience the same (usually when there is a @mention inside a quote) sometimes I need to trigger backspace multiple times in order to erase the text, but I’m always able to erase text. We look into this and see if we can make improvements here 

 @Yoeri - yes, that’s exactly what I mean! I’ve also been able to edit quotes myself - most of the time - but some users experience more problems. I’ll ask them to provide details of their browsers etc if this problem persists.

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• We re-enabled Polls. Check out this poll and let us know your thoughts: https://community.insided.com/platform-research-60/poll-should-users-be-able-to-use-text-and-formatting-color-when-writing-a-post-1840
  • Poll titles should have at least 10 characters
  • You can add as much as 10 options to a poll
  • Add an option to a poll by clicking the ‘+’ button
  • Once your poll is created:
    • You can not add new options 
    • You can remove options as long as there are no votes casted
    • You can change the text of the title and options as long as there are no votes casted

Hey Julian,

I was away for a couple of days (not a good thing to do when these issues are running arround haha). The G letter is also showing on the Inspired Community when typing in ‘italic’. So its the same. I don't see the company font solving this, looks to be something else (using Chrome Versie 77.0.3865.120 Officiële build 64-bits)?

As for the image/paperclip, lets start at the beginning, so lets forget about the paperclip.

In the previous editor we did not have attachments turned on for our users. but by default everyone can always add images.

When they would add an image, then it would automatically become an attachment. 

then you could choose to make it appear in the text and as an attachment, or only as an attachment or only as in text. 

The new editor does not support this anymore and will always display an image in the text.

(So again, this is without the function to add attachments)

Hope this clarifies a bit.

Cheers,

Thanks, @Yoeri. I just tried this and it didn’t work as expected. For example, with this post, I have two links that go to coursera.org pages. Both links opened in the same tab, taking me away from the community platform. Because our community page is coursera.community, I assumed this would cause coursera.org pages to open in a new tab. Is this correct?

It’s been over 3 weeks that we released the editor and meanwhile quite some things have changed and improved because of your feedback ✌️ Here’s the latest update:

In progress

• UI fix that resolves an issue where the @mention list goes out of the screen on smaller viewports

Investigating & Next

The following items are still being investigated and/or on the list to be improved over time: 

• Replace editor font with your company font
• Send a single notification on a quote that contains a mention
• ‘Bouncing’ behavior
• Change the username of a user quote
• Quotation mark behavior in finnish
• Open up text colors for users (psst vote on the poll if you haven’t done this yet, so far it looks like you want to give your users the possibility to add custom text- and formatting colors) 

Feedback on previous posts

• The new editor has 2 different scenarios as it comes to adding an image: 1) Insert image will directly show the image in the content and 2) Upload files will attach an image to the post. It is correct that you no longer can select an image from your hard-drive an both insert it into the text and attach it. We deliberately choose for the new set up as it makes more sense to choice up front wether you want to 1) insert a photo or 2) attach a photo
• @LPortalupi have you tried to post an URL that does not include your primary domain (coursera) and see if that does open a new tab. The way this functionality behaves is that it looks at the domain name of your community and all links with the same structure will open in the same tab

This was the last update from my side for a short while as I will be out of office the coming time. If you have any questions, feedback and ideas still do not hesitate to let us know, my colleagues will be happy to help and support :)

Actually the links in that example post I linked to were bit.ly links, and they opened in the same tab. I just tested this with another post’s link to a different Coursera.org page and it opened in a new tab. This seems to be inconsistent; it doesn’t seem like expected behavior.