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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

That's what that was! I experienced this behavior for years writing posts or comments on facebooks mobile site, helped me a lot to wean myself of that one.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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post #3

I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

last post:

> so I think I should make it clear that when I say "I love tumblr" I mean I love the userbase, at least most of it (obviously not the cyberbullying people with death threats part), and not the staff. the staff have no idea what they're doing and are only making the site worse

He/she loves Tumblr :)

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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post #12

That’s really nice of him to put together such a concise, well-described list of issues for them. Hopefully someone sees this and adds it to their issue tracker. It’s very rare to see anyone internal grab something from outside like that though.

There’s evidence in the list that they know about them and can’t seem to fix them. It’s likely a pile of bandaids and trying to fix one breaks another thing unrelated.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

That's what that was! I experienced this behavior for years writing posts or comments on facebooks mobile site, helped me a lot to wean myself of that one.

Thanks, indeed seems to have been raised on the Github repo.

https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/issues/1077

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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post #3

I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

A dying social media platform can be as good as a new one - the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist and neither do many trolls (no audience) so the remaining group can be a good cross-section.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

Javascript editors trying to reinvent desktop paradigms but without the 40-odd years of practice and having all the events arrive whenever they feel like is one of the most frequent irritations of web-based platforms for me, because you use a text editor so frequently and therefore encounter its problems similarly often.

For example, earlier today I was editing a small internal app in Retool. I typed something, instinctively went for Cmd-Z, and it reverts a bunch of changes I made in the query I had open 5 minutes ago. Of course, by the time I spot it and hit Shift-Cmd-Z, the internal state has updated so now it redoes some other unrelated undo operation and I have two broken things to fix.

And then of course there's Notion, the champion of "you've hit a keyboard shortcut and it's applied it to something halfway across the screen from the selection, or possibly just given up trying to do anything useful and deleted a few paragraphs of text at random". Perhaps they were pining for the outrageously janky experience that was attempting to make even the most innocuous of formatting changes in earlier versions of Word For Windows.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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post #14
post #3

I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

last post: > so I think I should make it clear that when I say "I love tumblr" I mean I love the userbase, at least most of it (obviously not the cyberbullying people with death threats part), and not the staff. the staff have no idea what they're doing and are only making the site worse He/she loves Tumblr :)

Foone is a they.
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