Editor, with a twist in Site Updates

Not bad!

Hmm...I twisty Editor...this could be interesting! :)

Your disco ball is gone!

Not sure how I feel about it, but I'll give it a shot.

Looks good. But having the buttons to format fonts, bold, etc, was helpful to me. I still have trouble with markup and html. And I have a lazy streak to re-learn after years of button use. I'm appreciate none the less of whatever you put out there.

This really sucks not having the other functions handily accessible. If you'd just leave things alone it'd be great. Remember, we wouldn't have joined if we didn't love things just the way they are. Too much change is annoying and causes all kinds of glitches and headaches. Nothing irritates me more than to get hooked on a site just find a year or so later it becomes nothing like what it originally was. So please... if it's isn't broken, don't fix it! You don't need to impress us anymore. We ARE impressed and happy just the way it is.

Hmmm can't say I like it. One of the things that put me off moving here before OD died was the lack of formatting buttons. Yes I know HTML, yes I could probably do markup but I don't want the hassle of having to do either just to make some text bold or italic, or to add an image. So removing those easy to use buttons feels like a step backwards to me. Sorry :(

I love it! Thanks!

• oh! That is what happened! I was posting a whole bunch of food porn, and wondered what had happened =D It is nice and a lot easier to make entries. Thank you. ♥

Shiny! I like that preview now looks how your actual entry will look, before images were squashed and the font was a wee bit smaller. Now it matches! lol

Sorry but what are you referring to here?
"I'm noticing that the resize function might be slightly flaky."
What's the resize function?

Wasn't sure how this was suppose to work at first, love it. For me it's a keeper. Naturally you've still got some cranky pants who still want to live in the good ol' days of the OD. Whiners have to understand they get their accounts for free, and until they pay for the development you do to the site they don't have a stake in it. THEY JUST GET TO USE IT.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. The colors I have for Prosebox are dark grey, so the box I'm typing in for editing are also dark grey and there is no distinction between it and the area outside of the editing section. Any way that this can default to white again?

I may be a little thick, but it took me ages to work out how to add a title.

Can I please just write in html? ...please?

Is there a site where I can go learn mark up or at least get some basic commands?

Unsure if I like it or not, but having the basics book link you posted, maybe it won't be that bad. ;)

I'm just seeing a white box. Ugh.

Can you please put the toolbar back into the editor, I found that useful as I can't remember the HTML codes to add pictures, insert a hyperlink etc. I came to write an entry this afternoon & it was all gone! lol

Wrote a whole comment but since I gave up leaving negative notes on FB I won't leave one here either. This is your site. You will fix it as you want. : ^ )

I LOVE how the editor box grows as I type! I was having trouble with the small space. Thanks for updating that! I am looking forward to the toolbar coming back--I do use asterisks for italics and bold, so that's fine, but the link and image tools I use. I did remember a bit of HTML, (img src) which was helpful this morning but I can't remember how to resize it or enter hyperlinks.

It's nice that you are open to suggestions and willing to try new things--thanks for all the work you do. :)

So it's strictly commands for italics, bold, underline, etc for now? I kind of liked the toolbar from before...

everyone loves to complain if you don't like then leave!

So how do we put photos in now?

I was having trouble adding photos before, now I am lost altogether. I am technologically impaired!! I just wish I could put them in more easily, as I can't put them in any more, sorry. T.Y. for being proactive with your site, for us.

So when you say temporarily gone, that means the ability to add photos and links etc will be returning? Other than that it looks lovely and clean but I was like EEEEP! xXx

Can we have a choice of using the old editor until this one is properly ready please?

I've updated the FAQ intro for writing entries; I'll update it again when the toolbar comes back. It includes a little cheatsheet for typing codes that the old toolbar used to insert.

http://prosebox.wikispaces.com/How+do+I+write+an+entry+in+a+Book%3F

It has messed up how I write through mobile. I was able to write a full entry last night and it took quite awhile. I couldn't quite scroll back up to see the text I was writing. Not sure why but it advanced the writing box all the way down. As if I was writing at the bottom of the screen but my words were out of site at the top.

It starts off OK but once you go a few lines in is where the trouble starts. And since the box goes from one edge of my phone screen to another I can't tap enough space to scroll up.

It seems neat but on a phone it has some issues.

I see no place to give my entry a title! I don't want them all to be Untitled. How do I put a title on my entry, please?

http://youtu.be/4LGu1sOvxYs

oh jeez this conversation is long and i weighed in in the middle without reading it

LOL FORUM ETIQUETTE FAIL whatever anyway CH-CH-CH-CHAAAANGES

What I have noticed is that the little thingy on the WYSIWYG bar that should let you insert pictures instead let's you put in links. Thanks for the resize thingy. I'll try it tomorrow. :)

Oh so this is why I couldn't type last night from my phone.... now I know what the "editor" IS.

I'm gonna try again but I think from my phone where I do a lot of my posts....it wasn't working. I know I'm not the only one that does a lot from their phone....

I'm gonna try....

I understand that some people aren't happy with the new text box and it isn't working for them.

I like it. Very clean and it works just like it should.

Can anyone give a heads up on posting YouTube videos now? Since the update, I haven't been able to get one embedded correctly.

I DO realize this is a FREE BETA site, why not make the next change an upside down editor that enters entries in backwards? Or totally flip the screen to have a mirror image so we can learn to read and post in reverse. That's a bit of sarcasm for those that might be offended. But for a FREE BETA site to continue it needs users. And for the most they should determine what they like. I do realize there has to be boundaries and limits but the editor is OUR basic way of posting entries. Seems like some things are good enough left alone. I have left sites before because I don't care for the way they are moving, and I can do it again. I will also spread the word. Boycotting for now, and then I will mosey on my way if this doesn't change. Just a post from another user........

I for one love it. I think it's clean and modern, and actually better than the typical fixed-size text area. Took about 5 seconds of getting used to, and then I was sold. Nice job!

I like the editor. I like the tool bar to the left. All good.

Editing SNAFU I am having problems with the order of my entry chapters.

Notice on the right hand side a box titled "3 published entries" underneath the title are a list of 3 entries. The last entry in the list is "My complaint is lengthy" I want that entry to be the first entry in the list, but I don't know how to rearrange the order or if it is even possible.

The first entry in the list "Attorney misconduct bureaucracy." I want to be the last entry or currently the 3rd entry in the list. But I don't know how to do that.

When I start writing a story and enter chapters as I write them, the first chapter and subsequent chapters are continually pushed down to the bottom as I add each chapter. Hypothetically, I finish the book and I have a list of chapters and someone comes along and reads my book. The person quite naturally starts reading the very first entry. The very first entry at the top of the list, is the very last chapter of my book. So that someone reading the top entry is reading the ending rather than the beginning.

The default always puts latest entries to the top of the heap, including the final chapter, or last entry of the book being at the top, or first entry. I write my books chronologically forward. If I wrote my chapters starting with the ending and go from there, this would not be a problem. I don't know anyone who writes backwards chronologically.

Last thing, Is it possible that I can rearrange the entries to whatever. That would solve my problem too. Look at my entry list on the right of my screen. How can I manipulate the entries in the order I want them to be in? If this can't be done it can't be done.

I hope you understand. I have been trying to figure this out before make anymore entries. Thank you so much for your concerns. I really, really appreciate it.