Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-24006128-20200723182124/@comment-134861-20200727134126

New issues noticed today:
 * the edit window is unable to accurately select text when zoomed out to 80% or less.
 * Syntax highlighting help page says that there should be an option "Do not show syntax highlighting in 'Source mode'" in the Editing tab of my preferences, but no such option exists. I figured out how to turn it off based on comments in the forums, but it sounds like my preferences page is incorrect also?
 * Syntax highlighting is definitely a major contributor to the slow load times for edit windows, but not the entirety of it. Still seeing several-second lags even after turning it off, and when opening multiple tabs.

Seemingly solved issues:
 * toolbox bar is collapsed by default, hard to find for people who don't know it's still there
 * "Save changes" button cannot be reached without scrolling back to top of edit window
 * "show changes" now requires going to "preview" and then "review your changes" from the edit window, instead of being one button. This is especially awful when the page being edited is long with many pictures or templates, which can cause exorbitant lag on slower connections; "Show changes" used to be the solution to that problem!
 * edit window sometimes has a mandatory "describe what you changed" popup

Acknowledged issues:
 * unable to leave messages for anonymous editors like on wikipedia or wikimedia
 * no mail icon to notify of message wall changes across FANDOM
 * "e" and "d" no longer work as hotkeys for edit and delete (other keys must be used, which are currently not working though)
 * on the old editor, the page title (next to "Editing") was still a link, so you could open up the current version of the page as a tab, which is useful for stuff like copying over what is in the previous version of a page or in another section, without having to cancel out or go to show changes, or if you're doing certain forms of high-volume edits like adding categories to a lot of similarly-named pages all at once (you could hit the edit link on one, right click the title to open a new tab, modify the url as needed, hit edit on that one, etc.). I used that a lot in adding pages to my boardgame/cardgame wikis. I can't find an approximation for that feature in the new editor, any suggestions? (fixable with JS, once JS is available)

Other issues:
 * source editor window still takes a few seconds more than non-UCP source editor to load
 * Help:Unified Community Platform page does not list any missing features or workarounds that I can see, despite being claimed as an alternative to User:Noreplyz/UCP. As such, it reads less as a help page and more as a press release. Please revise or create new blog to include cataloging of non-bug user feature reports and what the FANDOM direction or workaround on them will be
 * New wiki layout is no longer compatible with PseudoMonobook, as employing it removes the "edit" bar. Can you please clarify what could have changed in how the edit bar is named or defined from the previous format that would cause it to be caught by the PseudoMonobook filter?
 * "edit" and "edit source" both displayed at each editable header -- can we change something in preferences to show only one?
 * "ctrl+f" while in new source editor pop up a wikia-specific window instead of letting me use the browser search function. We need a way to disable this in preferences.
 * only possible to use the old source editor (with the working Ctrl+F) when undoing an edit. Please make it available in preferences for any editing.
 * "templates used" is now part of a dropdown and popup instead of just being an everpresent button on the edit window
 * categories only appear at top of page, and only show the first three categories. This makes it more annoying on browser, and a too-annoying-to-deal-with hassle on mobile. An especially bad problem on gamecruft wikis that use categories extensively to allow navigation of various items, cards, etc.
 * this is not new to UCP I think, but many non-thumb images go straight to the file instead of the file page when clicked. I can't find a consistent pattern, though.
 * Special:NewFiles and classic categories no longer show the name of the file under the image
 * I'm still noticing a major slowness when editing large pages with the source editor, and often the curse doesn't even show up when I click. It also takes a second or two to switch between tabs with the editor open.
 * I'm also noticing that when you preview a page, it does not use the current state of the templates, it uses whatever they were when you first started editing that page. Therefore, if I'm tweaking templates to get them to load right, I have to back out of the edit window and then back in, and then hit preview again, to see the changes.
 * I can't open an edit window for Common.css in a new tab just by doing ctrl+click. I have to actually rightclick and go through the dropdown.
 * As seen here, the "what links to" no longer nests pages that link to redirects that link to the queried page, which makes it a lot more difficult to use.
 * Also, opening up more than a few tabs starts taking multiple seconds per tab, whereas with the previous system it was basically as fast as you could click them in the first place.

I do want to say that the current fixes to the edit window are a huge improvement. There's more to be done, but thank you for what you've done so far to listen to editor feedback.