Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Interactive Prototype/What about all the nice things Wikitext offers us? Will they be available in Flow?/reply (23)

Oh yes, and this will be a lot more straightforward for sure: Fiddling around with buttons to somehow get the intended indentation level right instead of just counting colons and quickly adding or removing some of them... (sorry for the sarcasm)

The result will be people not caring for indentation at all resulting in deeply nested discussions, or no nesting at all (depending on the softwares default behavior). Maybe even totally messed up indentation because of some people replying to the last post while others reply to specific posts and even others reply always to the first post (I've seen that on other websites before)

It also won't be possible for experienced editors to clean up indentation because they can't simply add or remove some indentation to/from another post as it is possible with Wikitext. Actually the won't be able to edit other posts at all (and even if they could, I doubt they will start clicking buttons on multiple posts to realign all of them in a reasonable manner).

Anyhow were digging into some very specific details here already. We can talk about them if you want, but it won't solve the main problem that where having with Flow and what this thread was about initially: The fact Wikitext will be stripped out from the comment functionality and one will have to use the VisualEditor. I don't think there are any news on this front, though (I followed the discussion on en:WP:VP).