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We are using what most people would consider an out of the box solution - and some people ship to customers as-is.[1]
The problem with most editors is that they tend to do one thing (markdown) or the other (wysiwyg) to an okay degree, but none of them do markdown and wysiwyg compatibility to this degree. (Try using any other website's hybrid editor, doing some ambitious styling and switch back and forth between modes.)
In the hopes of protocoling SN someday, we want to keep markdown as the base encoding of content here. Yet, in the interest of helping folks from any walk of life participate on SN, we want to make adding nice content to SN easy.
Isn't an editor like the most common thing in online platforms?
Yes. Do you have one you love the most and wish it were everywhere?
Aren't there out of the box solutions that achieve what you want, with extreme levels of customisation?
All of this work is the extreme customization part of an out of the box solution. Our customization needs just go beyond add new styling options.
We have bugs fixed in our editor that even Facebook hasn't fixed in their products yet, and they are the ones working on the underlying library. ↩
Probably very naive question...
This seems like it has been quite the work and endeavour. Yet, I'm surprised that's the case. Isn't an editor like the most common thing in online platforms? Aren't there out of the box solutions that achieve what you want, with extreme levels of customisation?
Or are those mostly crappy and not to SN standards?
Genuinely asking, I'm sure there is a reason @sox put so much time and love in this.