I just wanted to say thank you, for having a new format to use when writing reviews. While some might have liked it before, I couldn't stand having to constantly use the brackets to make letters bold. I also like the new spell checker, which could be the most helpful new feature of all.

Whoever is responsible for this thank you!

Mike

I hate it with a burning passion. Come on, HTML isnt that hard, and it gives you MUCH more control over the way you get your review formatted.

Dont dumb the interface down like that! Or at least give us the option of doing the old way, too!


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Okay, I just spent the last half hour wrestling with this stupid interface, trying to get my review into a readable format, let alone something that actually LOOKS good and at this point, I give up. I've spent longer trying to get things to look correctly than I did writing this stupid thing.

Fortunatly, that was the last review I needed for the month. Sadly though, that will probably be my last review for a while. The frustration level is just way too great for my dollar. . . .

Yeah... should work. Except for those pesky end of line markers that are getting in the way causing the "opeing... without a closing..." errors. See the other thread for more details.

Check out the other thread - we're working through those very issues, and coming up with workable solutions (while we await real fixes).

I'm starting to get the feel of this but is still seems far from user friendly. I'm disliking the fact that almost every older review I have gone to update has the html errors and though I have found some of the problems by going into the html feature, it's labor intensive.

Now I know how to link directly through the editor. Pretty simple...pretty cool!!


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edited to add that the linking is easy

Putting aside that the new system sucks for the moment, we shouldnt HAVE to work around like that. What the hell kind of QA departmemnt lets something like this - BASIC functionality - roll out the door in this condition?!? And right before the end of the month, too. Okay, if this were the first week of September or something, it would be annoying, but you wouldnt be under the crunch to get X more reviews done in the next three days. Now I'm spending more time fighting against the presentation than I am finishing up my reviews before the clock runs out.

Sorry, but that's just plain idiocy.

This editor is the solution to a problem that never existed. Now I find myself having to argue with it as it inserts superfluous line-break tags between paragraphs. The "HTML" button is not the same as giving those of us who were doing just fine with the old one the option of sticking with what works, although I must say it's better than the beta testing, where (until we deleted our cookies) it was as though we had a car with the hood welded shut.

And as a stone GNU/Linux user who writes almost everything in LaTeX using vi, "paste from Word" is laughable. Why would I want to do that, even if I could? Plain text editing with visible format tags is so much more convenient. WordPerfect was nice because we got to "reveal codes" and beat the program into submission. Here we can "reveal codes" in a sense, and we still get superfluous br tags.

On a semi-related note, a "thumbs-up" for the decision to forbid HTML tags in the titles. I don't know what people were thinking, in putting them in in the first place. Web page titles are not formatted; the tags show up *verbatim* in window or tab title bars, on search engines, and make it look as though the site is broken.

Found the new editing system when I came back to finish a review. I'm sure there are bugs to work out of the system (there always are), but it's a step in the right direction.

I look forward to Epinions continuing this revamp on the rest of the site.
Cheers,
GB