Board Thread:New Features/@comment-2240397-20160318153556/@comment-24473195-20160322090303

Fandyllic wrote:

No, a worse UX is funneling a user to the worst possible choice. And editing is not a single action. If it were, we would all write everything in machine language and damn all those folks who don't want to learn it! Binary for all!

The problem with editors at Wikia is their inability to finish a project and unwillingness to kill what should be killed. The problem is not entirely with their inability to finish a project. The problem is  the fact that wikitext is not well specified, and allows all sorts of hacky workarounds and pure bugs that people depend on. One simple example is the fact that you can create unbalanced html, but putting bits and pieces into several templates. It is like chasing a moving target whose true identity nobody knows.

The main issue is that the concept of "wrong" wikitext doesn't exist, so anything a GUI doesn't allow can also be considered by some as "wrong". A good frontend depends on a good backend.