The thing that personally pisses me off the most is that the @staff asked for feedback back in the beginning of 2021, and promised that the feedback we sent would be used to improve the new beta editor before it was made permanent. I still have the email I sent in March of 2021 and the response I got back. Most of my complaints had to do with tagging, specifically:
- no quick tag options; for those making original content this is an absolute must, since attracting traffic means tagging with popular tags for the content, but staying organized on your own blog usually requires an entirely different set of tags (this is what quick tag bundles are for)
- no frequent tag memory; in other words, the old post editor remembers 10/10 of the content I regularly tag; the new post editor remembers only two
- the new post editor also retains no memory of frequently used tags that use columns, hyphens, exclamation marks, or asterisks
The response I got was this:
These are a work in progress. We’ve been investing a lot of time to improve how tagging behaves in the new editor. We’ve improved it quite a lot, and I’m confident we’re going to improve tagging even more over time!
The beta editor is a work in progress. Every day we’re releasing new improvements and making sure that we get it as similar as possible with the legacy one (in terms of usage), but of course, a much-improved version of it.
We’ve been getting tons of positive feedback, but none of that would be possible if we didn’t gather (and act) on the feedback that we get from the community, just like this one.
As an aside, don’t worry, we’re not discontinuing the legacy editor before addressing as many issues as we can with the new, beta editor.
It has been two years since they’ve asked for this feedback, and the beta editor today is just as shitty as it was then, except that somehow gifs on the new beta editor look even worse now, than they did in 2021. Even the quality of plain images significantly decreases on the new post editor, so not only will the gifmakers affected, but also photographers, editors, and artists.
I don’t think @staff understands that once you get rid of 90% of visual content creators (and yes, in this case we are content creators because content is what provides this site nearly all of its traffic; content is its freaking reason for existence) all you have left is another Blogger by Google; a blogging platform on its inevitable slide obsolescence.
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