Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-896291-20170919231119

Fandyllic wrote: If it's not clear to most people yet, the "Lucy" editor really means the complete removal of wikitext based editing probably any markup editing at all, aka no source edit mode. This is not like the Visual Editor or its predecessor, the RTE. It is a complete overhaul of the "wiki" engine. It really isn't a wiki at all.

I mean, yeah, the opening post made that pretty clear, and so did the posts following it. It was a bit puzzling when people in the middle of the thread started saying "it's just a possible replacement for the visual editor, not the removal of wikitext" and not the opposite.

And as much as they say that this is "just an experiment", like most things here, it's just something that's on the horizon and I'm guessing one way they plan on solving the "wiki exodus" problem they've had since the early 2000s, but it isn't ready for a public thread announcement from the sounds of things.

And this sucks because there are no alternative wikifarm sites to use where free hosting is a possibility, like there was when LiveJournal staffers forked from LiveJournal to create Dreamwidth.org or even Archive of Our Own as a substitute for Fanfiction.Net (who, funny enough, even got rid of their source editor). I can't pay for server hosting and I'm guessing the thousands of other people here can't either.