User blog comment:Kirkburn/VisualEditor - the past, present and future/@comment-4002547-20140712213255

Why are making proper links in the new Visual Editor still messed up? Links are vital to wikis, I would've thought something like that would have high priority among the aesthetics.

To clarify, when using the old editor we get a link popup with two lines, one for the link and one for the displayed text. In the new visual editor we only get the link line, not the displayed text line - wich leads to ugly, ugly links.

I get the minimization is in fashion but sweet fucking hell, there comes a point where you remove too much. We need a little more than bare bones to work with, not to mention that a screaming lack of stuff indicates sterility rather than user-friendliness.

Sure, the text can be written out in advance and then edited but when the displayed text is meant to be an extraction from the link text then having both lines up at the same time has obvious benefits for user-friendliness.