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Old May 26, 2018 | 12:06 pm
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Just played around with different editors a bit.

Why does the Full WYSIWYG editor have such a tiny edit box that makes it pretty much unusable?
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Old May 26, 2018 | 1:44 pm
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The full WYSIWYG editor should be illegal, but in any case, there's a grab handle at the bottom right corner of the box that you can use to resize it.
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Old May 26, 2018 | 2:10 pm
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Originally Posted by Maluku_Flyer
Just played around with different editors a bit.

Why does the Full WYSIWYG editor have such a tiny edit box that makes it pretty much unusable?
The "advanced" edit screen has been that way from several software downgrades ago.
A few years ago editing was OK & easy.
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Old May 26, 2018 | 2:40 pm
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Originally Posted by pvn
The full WYSIWYG editor should be illegal, but in any case, there's a grab handle at the bottom right corner of the box that you can use to resize it.
The resize handle doesn't work (Firefox). What do you mean by "should be illegal"?
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Old May 27, 2018 | 11:19 pm
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Has the font gone grey again? Can it go back to being just plain black? It looks very washed out.
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Old May 28, 2018 | 5:23 am
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Originally Posted by Zorak
IB desperately needs someone in a management position who understands the importance of things like user experience and regression testing, and the will and political capital to enforce associated practices.
Don't you worry, summer intern season is about to start, so I'm sure the Chief User Experience Officer is about to start their 10 week contract!
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Old May 28, 2018 | 9:25 am
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Originally Posted by Zorak
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IB desperately needs someone in a management position who understands the importance of things like user experience and regression testing, and the will and political capital to enforce associated practices.
IB did not?

Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
This is a timely comment. The person who is responsble for all of IB's travel websites has changed. I am very impressed with their new leader. She has spent the past several months staffing a new team who is tasked with product development for FlyerTalk. As part of that, we are in conversation about how better to take suggestions from members and get them in front of IB staff. It's a new work in progress but I am optimistic.
(underline mine)

Or things have changed (again) between last November and now?
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Old May 28, 2018 | 2:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Maluku_Flyer
The resize handle doesn't work (Firefox). What do you mean by "should be illegal"?
There's no good reason to use it, it's overcomplicated for no benefit, it just causes a lot of problems.
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Old May 28, 2018 | 2:47 pm
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Originally Posted by pvn
There's no good reason to use it, it's overcomplicated for no benefit, it just causes a lot of problems.
Before one of the recent downgrades it still worked fine. I liked the ability to use different font sizes in one post. The "Full CKEditor" doesn't offer that. But at least the resize handle works on that one.
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Old May 28, 2018 | 3:32 pm
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Allowing people to do stuff like font changes is terrible for readability of the forum. Also all of the formatting stuff that the WYSIWYG editor injects makes quoting other people's posts more cumbersome.
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Old May 28, 2018 | 11:31 pm
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Originally Posted by lin821
IB did not?


(underline mine)

Or things have changed (again) between last November and now?
My comment is based on evidence observable to users. I have no idea what is or isn't occuring internal to the IB organization.

Merely having someone "tasked with product development" does not necessarily mean they have the correct experience, or are appropriately empowered, to implement what by now are fairly industry-standard software development practices.
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Old May 29, 2018 | 12:23 am
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Agree 100%. Some of us take professional pride in making sure that any changes are seamless and without impact to users. When we see something go so badly wrong it really gets under the skin.

There are many examples in this thread that are just web design 101 failures. Hyperlinks, font issues should not happen. Period.
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Old May 29, 2018 | 3:49 pm
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Originally Posted by CPRich
Underlines to indicate hyperlinks, like every other web site in existence, are gone again.

Underlines for hyperlinks are back!
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Old May 29, 2018 | 3:54 pm
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Thank you. ^ Although the proverbial full reload/clear cache was necessary in my case
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Old May 29, 2018 | 10:25 pm
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Not sure if this is related to a design tweak that was made, but I just noticed moderator handles are no longer appearing in red, they are now black, exactly like "regular" members.

See screenshot below:
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