The comment box is still horribly unusable because it is still doing its stupid quasi-WYSIWYG thing where entered Markdown gets converted to terrible-to-manipulate rich text. Seriously, this is a really bad idea that makes the sites much less usable. Just either have plaintext input with preview so you can see how the Markdown comes out (my preference), possibly with optional rich-text input for those who prefer that for some reason. But the current way just makes me hate commenting here. There was nothing wrong with the way it worked on the old site and the new way is horrid. Just get rid of this, seriously.
Edit: Here’s an example of how broken the current system is. I tried to make a link to this LW post via Markdown. It didn’t work because when I pasted the URL into the parentheses, the underlines turned into italics. That’s seriously broken.
The comment box is still horribly unusable because it is still doing its stupid quasi-WYSIWYG thing where entered Markdown gets converted to terrible-to-manipulate rich text. Seriously, this is a really bad idea that makes the sites much less usable. Just either have plaintext input with preview so you can see how the Markdown comes out (my preference), possibly with optional rich-text input for those who prefer that for some reason. But the current way just makes me hate commenting here. There was nothing wrong with the way it worked on the old site and the new way is horrid. Just get rid of this, seriously.
Edit: Here’s an example of how broken the current system is. I tried to make a link to this LW post via Markdown. It didn’t work because when I pasted the URL into the parentheses, the underlines turned into italics. That’s seriously broken.