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perching_aix | 3 days ago

If I told you to stop using computers, and then you won't have computer problems, I don't think you would find that particularly helpful or charitable either, would you?

What you find a trusty "low-level" tool is a demo application for a basic WYSIWYG text editor. They modernized it so that it remains being perceived that way, instead of letting it be increasingly misclassified as a legacy product for the enthusiast, like you just did.

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alwa|3 days ago

I thought "basic WYSIWYG text editor" was more WordPad's lane, no? May it rest...

RHSeeger|3 days ago

That was my first thought... Notepad is a plain text editor. Why add formatted text options when there's no good reason for it?

Plus, judging by the image, it doesn't look like there's controls to interact with the plain text markdown. It seems more like it's a "you can use markdown _codes_ to trigger text formatting. Jira has exactly this, and it's horrible.

themafia|3 days ago

> letting it be increasingly misclassified

"No, it's the customers who are wrong."

perching_aix|2 days ago

From their (supposed) perspective, yes. That's the idea I wanted to convey indeed.