I recorded a short video as a status update on the new web-based text editor for Micro.blog that I’ve been working on. Finally on a path that feels like it’s going to work and be a big improvement, while retaining the Markdown-centered approach that we’ve always used.

@manton Are you writing it from scratch? Is there a specific reason why you can't use an existing markdown editor in JavaScript that is already tried and tested, such as one of those described in https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg-editors ?

@cesco I’ve tried dozens of other editors and never found one that is focused on Markdown (not rich text) and works reliably on all platforms.

@manton Not even https://milkdown.dev ?

@manton Because it seems like a lot of hours of work to write and thoroughly test it, just for that.

@cesco That looks good but it’s based on ProseMirror which is more geared toward rich text. It is difficult to mix HTML or see Markdown tags, for example.

@manton Looks good.

I've been pretty satisfied with the existing editor, and I welcome the improvement.

Two feature requests: Surface cross-posting and scheduling controls on the main screen, and let me paste images into the editor on both the desktop and mobile.

Thanks!

@alpower Side by side is possible, mostly as you said an issue of screen space. We can experiment with that later after the basics are in place.