diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2562: Toobar for Posts & Comments
Author: dangerouscliff
Created: 2011-12-26 20:56:21+00:00
State: open

Many Diaspora\* users are not developers or programmers or hackers, and for them, the whole Markdown thing is frustrating, intimidating and cumbersome—especially when there's currently [no editing capability](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1762) or the ability to preview the post/comment without going to [Daring Fireball](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus), and even then it's not a perfect representation of what you're going to see (e.g. #hashtags aren't recognized in the dingus). A toolbar that generates Markdown code on the fly would streamline the process of saying "what's on your mind", allowing the user to focus on what he or she wants to say, rather than if they got the Markdown code right. vBulletin, Wordpress, and other blogs have toolbars, **and** preview functionality. I think D\* should have one as well.