Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/What about all the nice things Wikitext offers us? Will they be available in Flow?/reply (17)

They are both fruits in the end. Only look and taste a little different ;)

So youre saying "while it is a common feature of a lot of forums, it's not a mandatory feature". However you want to make VisualEditor a mandatory feature. How is one better than the other? If you want to protect the casual editor from Wiki markup try to improve the VisualEditor. It can easily handle things like indention and signatures (which are not that hard after all). Section headings are only one simple element in addition to the easy syntax of most forums and can be handled by VisualEditor, too. All the things you're describing are much less of a hassle than trying to create a table with a WYSIWYG editor...

When you're talking about indentation: This thread is already so deep nested that it's impossible to get to the newest post easily. How should this be handled by Flow? How should the software now when to outdent? I think that's pretty much impossible.