User blog comment:Kirkburn/VisualEditor - the past, present and future/@comment-856287-20140604014058

When I started really editing on Wikia (about December of last year), I was using the VE all the time for all of my edits, except when I was forced to use the old editor on certain pages. It was really nice and it only ever messed up with verbatim and rss tags (appending the raw code to the page, and doing it again every time you saved).

This still happens, but I feel like the VE has taken two steps back since then. I frequently get errors and have started either using the old editor, or switching to source mode on VE, copying it to a text app on my desktop, and editing there instead. Usually when I'm done, VE is giving me errors and I have to reload the broken page to paste in the source and save. In fact, this happened to me earlier tonight and I almost lost a brand new page just before finishing it. Just all of a sudden I couldn't edit anything, mid-sentence. Source mode gave me som "parse" error or something, trying to save the page as-is did nothing. I was able to copy out the text and reload the page, but I had to re-apply all the wikimarkup.

Something like this seems to happen just about every time I use the VE these days. I had assumed that since I was getting so many frequent errors that surely Wikia already knew about it, so I have't been sending in any reports. I guess I'll have to start sending them, but I don't know if I have time to both make meaningful contributions and try to figure out what's happening so I can send in meaningful reports 😆

Is it fine if I just send in, "This is broken, here's a screenshot, sadfase," and then move on? 😇

I fully support having a VE, but I'm really struggling with it lately.