User blog:JustLeafy/The editors: Advantages and Disadvantages

Hey guys, JustLeafy here, and today, I am going to list advantages and disadvantages about all of the editors in Fandom.

VisualEditor
VisualEditor is the first editor that pretty much any desktop user tries when they make their first contribution in the entire site.

Advantages

 * Easy to use for new users.
 * New interface.
 * It looks almost exactly the same as the article area when editing.
 * Good toolbar.
 * You can switch into Source Editor in one click (IMO, a tabber feature would've been better).

Disadvantages

 * Very buggy at times.
 * Sometimes does not save because somebody was editing an article for a long period of time.

Source Editor
Source Editor is a very helpful editor, especially when you master wikitext.

Advantages

 * Very good for creating templates.
 * Helpful if you are having problems with VisualEditor.
 * Can make extra features (e.g. collapsible text) which the VisualEditor (or other editors) can't make.
 * Not buggy.

Disadvantages

 * Complicated for new users.
 * Old interface.

Classic rich-text editor
Classic RTE is the older version of the VisualEditor. IMO, this is the worst editor, and I dislike it so much that I want it removed, except if you want to make a blog post or something.

Advantages

 * Undoing and redoing changes while editing.
 * Has left, center and right buttons.

Disadvantages
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 * It doesn't show infoboxes.
 * After inserting a new template, publishing, then going back to the same editor, it only shows the template logo. What if you don't know the template name?
 * Old interface.
 * It doesn't exist in mobile.
 * It doesn't support complex mode. It shows how weak the classic rich-text editor is.
 * When moving an image, it doesn't show a line above the image, making a perfect image placement difficult.
 * We already have the VisualEditor, so what's the point of keeping the old one?

Mobile Editor
Mobile Editor is the first editor of most of the mobile users.

Advantages

 * Mobile-friendly interface.
 * It includes the source of the page.
 * A nice and clean interface.
 * Not buggy.

Disadvantages

 * You can only edit in sections.
 * There's no visual editor for the mobile interface.
 * There is no toolbar.

InfoboxBuilder
InfoboxBuilder is the one and only visual editor of lua and portable infoboxes.

Advantages

 * A nice and clean interface.
 * Very good for visually naming (some), adding and moving infobox elements.
 * Has extra features like collapsible section headers and an automatic article name for the infobox title.
 * Not buggy.

Disadvantages

 * Can't be used for an infobox for a second time. It can be only used once per infobox.

Advanced Source Editor
The ASE is the source editor of portable infoboxes.

Advantages

 * Very good for creating and customizing portable infoboxes and including extra features.
 * It shows colors (e.g. light green for tags, blue for quoted words like "text" etc.).
 * Not buggy.

Disadvantages

 * Some Android users have a problem removing some text.
 * Old interface.

Ratings
Here are my ratings for the editors:
 * VisualEditor: 8/10.
 * Source Editor: 9/10.
 * Classic RTE: 0/10.
 * Mobile Editor: 6/10.
 * InfoboxBuilder: 9/10.
 * Advanced Source Editor: 9/10.