Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200319160218/@comment-44999506-20200331113719

Hi there! I just wanted to drop a couple of things I have run into while editing for feedback!


 * While editing in source mode, sometimes random letters and spaces are added while writing that I haven't actively typed. When removing these letters or spaces I can't touch them most of the time and backspace removes my actual words instead. (Not a keyboard issue, only happens on the new wiki I made and happened even after checking keyboard) Have to go into Visual Editor to remove them, where the problem doesn't seem to be. Usually visual editor was the one creating weird stuff in the past, now source editor seems odd. Also "br" code spaces don't seem to update properly and take a while to update.
 * The main page of my wiki is entirely inaccessible right now and I'm not sure if that is intended. The home page just reads "[38f2a59f84ff22292c1ad76b] 2020-03-31 11:24:19: Fatal exception of type "MediaWiki\Storage\BlobAccessException" I can edit it but it won't show once edited. The header navigation will also not update on the home page while it does on any other page.
 * The fact that the editor scrolls with you instead of being fixed in place is user unfriendly in my eyes. It was nicer to have only the box content scroll rather than the entire editor, as long pages are incredibly tedious to scroll through each time when the whole box scrolls with you. Once I scrolled far down enough, the buttons to see my preview also entirely disappear on top of the page and I'm forced to scroll up all the way to look at the preview.
 * Categories inside a drop menu are also very unfriendly for quick editing. I'm not a fan of the fact that we can't manually add them on a side bar anymore via one quick window, but have to go through all these extra steps to add a category while editing. That categories aren't accessible in source mode at all is also bothersome, considering we used to be able to just add them with one click and now have to type them all in or switch to Visual Editor if we wanna add them without typing. These things make editing so much more time consuming
 * Some Special pages are entirely gone? Is that going to change? For example I wanted to go to Special:Templates to review all the existing templates but couldn't. I have no idea where to access templates and other Special pages now. This has made it difficult to build up a wiki from scratch like I normally do in a few hours
 * The theme designer/my tools bar being gone is also not great. Having to go through the admin dashboard each time is a struggle
 * PNG images are not transparent after adding them to an article even if the file comes with a transparent background

And a question I have is when you guys think CSS will be available again? While theme designer is alright to change basics, I would usually change the font size of my wikis to slightly smaller than default and customize infoboxes. I understand you said it will be back soon though and will try to be patient.

I hope my feedback helps some to improve the performance. Generally I think it's not a terrible change, but I believe it would be best to keep most of the features people were used to have easy access to so editing does not suddenly take hours longer than before!