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How can I switch off the new Editor ? It's catastrophic in my case

Pierre-Yves Mathys

I have a lot of card which include css and html solutions.

And as a good habit, any code includes a comment to explain the solution.

With the new editor all my css comment are changed by interpreting the MarkDown

Is it possible to switch off both : new editor and MarkDown ?

PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! over 150 cards.......

Exemple of text I keep in a card (before was working well - just have to open the card, copy, paste // now I loose all my /* and */ marks.... ) :

/* --------------------------------- */
/* */
/* CSS GENERAL COMMUNS */
/* =================== */
/* */
/* --------------------------------- */

/* CTA MENU BOUTON */
/* -- version desktop -- */
@media only screen and ( min-width: 981px ) {
.cta_menu a {
color: #191919 !important;
font-size:13px!important;
background-color: #f2e3ad !important;
padding: 8px 20px !important; /* espace up down - droite gauche | dessusTxt aprèsTxt dessousTxt avantTxt */
margin-top: -13px;/* distance top et haut du bouton */
margin-bottom: 10px; /* distance bas et bas du bouton */
border-radius: 0px;
box-shadow: 0px 10px 30px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}
.et-fixed-header #top-menu .cta_menu a {
color: #191919 !important;
}
}

/* -- version mobile -- */
@media only screen and ( max-width: 980px ) {
.cta_menu a {
color: #191919 !important;
font-size:13px!important;
background-color: #f2e3ad !important;
text-align:center;
padding: 12px 0px 12px 0px !important; /* espace ds bouton : dessusTxt aprèsTxt dessousTxt avantTxt */
margin-top: 10px;/* distance top et haut du bouton */
margin-bottom: 10px; /* distance bas et bas du bouton */
border-radius: 0px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
}
.et-fixed-header #top-menu .cta_menu a {
color: #fff !important;
}
}
/* OPTIONS DU MENU DESKTOP !!! mettre le bon nom du menu ciblé */
/* on hover */
#top-menu li a:hover,
.top-menu a:hover,
#liennova a:hover,
#mleg a:hover{
text-decoration: underline 3px !important;
text-shadow:none!important;
color:#fff4de!important;
}
/* active option */
#top-menu li.current-menu-item > a {
text-decoration: none !important;
text-shadow:none!important;
}

/* DESIGN LIGNE DE FOND */
#txtcopyright,
#liennova,
#liennova a,
#mleg a{
/* font-family: 'yeon sung';*/
font-size:9.5px;
font-weight:500; /* ou lighter ou 300 */
line-height: 2.9;
/* text-transform: uppercase; */
letter-spacing: 0.15em;
/* color:#ffffff!important; */
background-color: transparent!important;
color: inherit!important;
border: 0px!important;
}
#liennova,
#liennova a{
color:#fff4de!important;
}

Accepted answers

Alisson Sartor

Hello, Pierre!

Welcome to the community!

If you want to revert back to the editor that you're used to, for a very limited time period, you can turn this off by clicking on the “Share feedback” link just below the editor and then clicking “Turn off”.

However, please be aware that in the coming months, we are permanently going to this new editor experience for all users so we do appreciate any feedback before then.

Kind regards
Alisson
Trello Team

All comments

Alisson Sartor

Hello, Pierre!

Welcome to the community!

Kind regards
Alisson
Trello Team

Tallum Engenharia

I can't believe in this. Why will be the users obligated to use this new editor? Sincerely, I didn't appreciate this new editor. Like @Pierre-Yves Mathys, I use the cards for others examples and the old editor is the best.

Please, sincerely, consider to keep booth editor versions at the same time forever.

Thanks

Alisson Sartor

Hello, Minas Engenharia!

You can click the “Share feedback" blue button to fill up the survey on the experience you have, and can definitely ask for the legacy version to be kept. Every feedback and suggestion you have will be deeply appreciated.

Kind regards
Alisson
Trello Team

Adrian_rmgtwx

I'm glad there's an option to turn the feature off.

I've left feedback as to why I don't want it. But basically, I want to deal with text with minimal formatting. Not deal with an editor that wants to format everything.

Why would I want it to assume that new lines have paragraph spacing?

unknown

HATE the new editor with a passion. If I cannot permanently keep it OFF then I will seriously consider another way of managing my information.

It is not intuitive enough and keeps adding extra spacing after each paragraph WHICH I DO NOT WANT. Let me keep single line spacing for everything and don't try to second-guess what my formatting needs are.

Alisson Sartor

Hello, Diane!

Can you leave feedback also on the “Share feedback" blue button and fill up the survey?

Kind regards
Alisson
Trello team

Beatrix Paal

Oh gosh, I hate the new editor too!! WHY NOT AT LEAST HAVE THE OPTION TO KEEP USING THE OLD ONE????

It is not a disaster in my case like for the person whose code got destroyed, but it is super annoying that the Trello robot is trying to interpret what I want. And then, it does not take a "no" for an answer.

Here is a super simple example:

Try to start a normal paragraph with the characters "1." (one followed by a period). This is not going to be a list, you just happen to want to start a paragraph with these two characters. But it either gets indented or it loses the "1."

Or try to start a list; type "1." and let the robot turn it into a list. Then add some normal text in a few new paragraphs. (So far so good). Now try adding a second list item numbered "2." If you make it indented, it cannot be "2", it will revert to "1.", so now you have two list items that each start with "1." Or, you can keep the "2", but then it has to be a normal paragraph, and not indented.

Whoever designed this editor is trying to reinvent the wheel. MS Word has gone through these problems like 30 years ago! Numbered lists are complicated unless each list item is a single word. Please just let me handle them manually!!!!

Alisson Sartor

Hello, Beatrix!

Thanks for the detailed feedback!

Can you leave this feedback also on the “Share feedback" blue button and fill up the survey?

Kind regards
Alisson
Trello team

Anthony Smith_qm0hxo

The fact that we/I had to google how to turn it off should tell you that the invisible share feedback is not clear and will not give you real feedback, it should be an enforced pop over 'We have switched you to a new editor, if you don't like it...... "

Tammy Turner

Yay! I've found this helpful link on another thread ... it will allow you to go back to the old version of non-WYSIWYG editing. You have to reboot Trello to get it to work after turning it off.

go to This link (with your username, not mine haha) and then you can disable it.

Alisson Sartor

Hey, Anthony.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add this internally as well.

Kind Regards,

pajacz

I do agree, the new editor causes me a headache as I do type fast and takes ages to "initialise" or mention someone by using @..

When i click to add comment and do start typing immediately but editor is still initialising, so trello consume my key stokes as "hot keys" and start moving, archiving.. etc.. DISASTER !!! Please rollback or keep the option to turn it off.

Thanks!

Alisson Sartor

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll add this internally as well.

Kind Regards,

sfkleach

Unfortunately this option does not stick. Trello keep forcing you to try their editor. We do not want to be guinea pigs for yet another WYSWYG editor. By all means keep it for those people who like it but please do not force it on those of us for whom markdown is is fine.

Tammy Turner

I have not had this problem. It has stuck...

Philippe Bardon

Please leave us using the Markdown editor as we want. I don't want at all to work with this editor and I'll consider moving from Trello.

Kyala Shea

I don't see a Share Feedback link as mentioned above, so I assume this feedback feature has since been turned off.

But I echo the concerns above; I was initially very excited to see the new editor and appreciated the quick shortcuts for some formatting. However, the implementation is clearly not complete and there are far too many bugs for the editor to be usable, let alone useful.

As others have mentioned, many actions take far too long to return, such that I usually end up tagging myself (the default option), even though I've typed several characters of the recipients name and then the enter key.

As others have mentioned, the numbered list formatting is very simplistic and doesn't cover a bare minimum of needed cases. The list formatting seems almost completely broken. I can never get it to apply to the list lines exclusively; it always applies either to lines above and below (though separated by multiple newlines) and often applies erratically. The same is true of text formatting; it's extremely difficult to get header formatting to apply only the the line of header text rather than to lines above or below it.

The lack of flexibility with line spacing is also restricting.

I hope Trello will keep working on this feature, but always give users the ability to toggle it off, and at the very least keep that ability in place until the editor functions smoothly.

Thanks for considering our feedback.

Alisson Sartor

Hello, Kyala!

Thank you very much for the feedback. I agree with you that keeping this toggle option can be the best solution here, being flexible on this might be the best option.

You can still disable the editor here in https://trello.com/my/labs

Kind Regards,

Thilo Rusche

Same here, no feedback button that I can see. I've disabled the editor via /labs, but if this becomes a permanent "feature" with no way of disabling it, we will have to move away from Trello. Using raw markdown is a must for any software development team.

Tim Washington

I too hate the new editor. It slows everything down. I have multiple reasons for turning this off. Atlassian, do not force us to the new editor. It makes it harder and slower to mention people, upload files, etc. The classic editor works very well. I was very frustrated when I had to use the new editor.

American Roof Supplements

What is the reasoning for going to the new editor? It takes my text that I have been using for 5 years and completely messes everything up. My whole business runs with this app. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR CUSTOMERS??????????

American Roof Supplements

Tammy Turner you are an Angel!!!!!!

sfkleach

I think this is the high-handed attitude that gives Atlassian a dirty name amongst engineers, I am very sorry to say. I presume that Atlassian have done their research and found there is a majority of users who welcome this, it's absurd to imagine that it will be appreciated by long-standing users.

Having once been a cheerleader for Trello, I now warn new developers to stay clear of this product. I am very sorry, but it has consigned itself to internet history.

AWL NSW Illawarra

AAAARGH. We've been swapped to the new editor and past puts everything from 10-12 lines on a single line minus spaces. Help...

vertikaldienst

I have over 3000 Cards that depend on the formating as it was before, it will take me months, to have a proper workflow again, was hoping they take as well the superfluos stuff the put around links and email, but it seems they didn't...on my Mac on Crome I can still work with the old editor, but tried to log in with another Mac and there Crome even though logged into my crome account just shows me the new editor

Dissaster!!!!

Y I

フィードバックを送信

がなくなって、

Markdownヘルプ

になりました。

どうやって戻しますか。

Johan R

Since there is no more feedback button, I just want to echo what most people here have said. The new editor is terrible, thank god it can still be turned off or we would have had to switch away from Trello altogether, since it added so many headaches and delays in our workflow.

My guess is that the new editor is a way to try to capture a more general, non-tech audience to broaden the market, but doing so is definitely alienating the core customer base.

It would be interesting to see how many of the developers at Trello that use the new editor (by choice). My guess would be few to none.

AWL NSW Illawarra

Vote added for continuing to maintain option to toggle off new editor...

mnicky

It's funny that the description in labs reads: "This new editor gives you more control of how your content looks...", while in reality it does exactly the opposite, when compared to the old markdown one.

Why not just keep both options? Please, consider it.

Adrian_rmgtwx

I am rather concerned that I've started seeing this when editing

On 15 August, your editing experience for card descriptions and comments will be updated.

Does this mean that markdown will completely removed after this date?

That would be a very bad thing.

Time to look for Trello alternatives.

Thilo Rusche

I have the same concern and am looking for an alternative. Please do post here if you find one!!

mnicky

Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/trello/comments/1b7g4sm/completely_free_alternatives_to_trello/

mnicky

I just wanted to add that ability to not use any kind of WYSIWYG editor is a must have for me and I will look for an alternative as well, if this option won't be kept in Trello going forward.

Kim P_2gire4

I just got this notification on Trello just now and it disappoints me that we're losing the Markdown default option on the cards. I tried the new editor, but having the raw text available was useful for my social media copy workflow since it would never have formatting issues when copying & pasting. I have been using Trello for at least 9 years and got people hooked into the kanban method...

On August 15, your editing experience for card descriptions and comments will be updated.

mnicky

It looks like the decision has already been made to not keep the old markdown editor in the end: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-discussions/Looks-like-on-August-15-we-ll-all-be-forced-into-the-WYSIWYG/m-p/2755072 :-/

Adrian_rmgtwx

😢

Ángel Mamberto

Atlassian doesn't care about the users. We should just not use Trello anymore

Phil Nicholls

1 up

This new editor sucks, Trello is now a painful experience. Bring back markdown.

Adrian Williams_v6lbqw

The good news from this disappointing decision by Atlassian is that @Seweryn Kalemba has created an add-in to save us from this misery.

See https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-discussions/Looks-like-on-August-15-we-ll-all-be-forced-into-the-WYSIWYG/m-p/2782015#M4034

Salvador Aguirre

I heard a company would pirate Jira and keep their own version updated.

These forced changes made me understand why, very awful decisions

Beatrix Paal

Oh please

Bring back the markdown editor

Please

Pretty please

I see you guys tried to humor us a bit by accepting markdown input instead of making us mess with the mouse all the time. But once you type something and the robot converts it, there is no way to edit it with markdown anymore. Back to the dreaded buttons and incomprehensible robo-choices. It's like a relentless unyielding autocorrect that you cannot turn off.

Please, please, at least just explain why on earth you eliminated the ability to edit comments using markdown? Right now that markdown language is clearly lurking in the background, since you can use it for input. ONCE. You get ONE chance to type it right. After you hit enter for a new paragraph, you are f***ed.

Here is the thing that makes me actually cry:
You added a handy-dandy markdown helper, so now we don't have to google every time we forget how to do something. So nice and easy. Or would be if only... but let me not repeat myself... Insult to injury comes to mind

storizzi

The mobile app doesn't have a markdown editor yet (thank goodness) so you can always use that. I am relying on it. I have quite a complex workflow and if I edit anything using the desktop app now, it messes up the workflow completely. What I do is copy on my mac and paste into the card on my iPhone.

Yes, I know it's ridiculous, but otherwise I have to abandon my workflow that I took three years to develop.

Yes, I hate this arbitrary decision.

No I am not surprised, because Atlassian bought them. Any acqusition ends up with this kind of thing, trust me. I've been through many on the receiving end in my career.

But it has kicked me up the proverbial to create my own simplified kanban app, and start moving the workflow over there - because once the editor comes to the mobile, I have no chance.

Still, on the upside, that's one less subscription that I'll have to pay for!

Kind of feel like an idiot plowing three years into an ecosystem that could disappear at any time due to one stupid little change like this tbh.

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