[p2p-research] the psychology of power and empowerment

[Kevin Carson]

On 9/3/10, james burke <lifesized at gmail.com> wrote:

> regarding writing articles on the blog,
> the server can slow down which can lead to people clicking away and then
> clicking back and losing work.
> i advise to be patient if writing on using the blog editor and copy and
> paste the text, as you work,
> and save in a separate desktop text editor during the process as a backup.
> Then you can't lose anything.

Thanks, James.  But the problem isn't the editor eating text.  It's formatting.

For one thing, the last few times I used it the dashboard on the text
editor didn't even fully load, so not all the buttons were visible.
This made it really hard -- impossible, really -- to edit text.

But a problem of longer standing is line breaks.  Not only does it not
preserve line breaks when I paste text in from other editors
(including pasting in the html from editors at other Wordpress blogs),
but it doesn't even properly preserve them when I write directly in
the text editor.

When I try to skip a line between paragraphs...

Like this...

The text editor eliminates the line...
So it looks like this.

I wind up having to skip a line and then type a period on the blank one,
.
which looks really stupid (I sometimes highlight the period and select
the smallest text size to make it less obvious, which makes it even
more time-consuming).

What it boils down to is that, with these workarounds, it takes me
about three times as long to put together a blog post as it normally
would.  And none of the other Wordpress interfaces I use does this --
just the P2P blog.

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