MyFitnessPal Community Update to Rich Editor Format (3/4/2025)

@Nova Is there a way to quote a post and keep the picture format? It just turns it into a link:

You can find more info here - Update to Rich Editor Format

I didn't know about the mentions not working unless its on the first line.

@b3achy said it best…since I can't quote only a portion of her post, i'll copy and paste….and amazingly this came in single space (see note below regarding inconsistency)

……. If the new editor can't do colors, then I don't understand why we're changing to an inferior editor. BBC Code has worked fine for ages, why switch now to something that doesn't at a MINIMUM include what we can do in BBC code and then adds new things. Seems like yet another backwards step on this platform….

I understand companies ending their support etc but I'm pretty sure there were other solutions…..

I guess if all you do is a quick post, then it's not that significant but for me…yikes.

I hold a lot of my content for my different groups in the draft section. If I had known that all my work would go "poof," I would have saved it somewhere else, but that's water under the bridge.

I just succeeded in getting to the point where I didn't have to save content outside of MFP, but I guess that will change again. The tool I was using doubled in membership fees, so I cancelled it….going to have to rethink it as my frustration right now is worth the cost.

IF it worked just like WORD or EXCEL, I'd be ok. But it doesn't AND it's very inconsistent. What worked one day, didn't work the next. The removal of colors makes our post very bland. Many of us used colors for at a glance results…now gone! No "center"…maybe I missed it but I read the only way to center is to use the space bar!!!! HA ~ oh, the space thing didn't work….. oh, I read it works with images but not text.

Automatic double and triple spacing (when you copy) with no consistent way to get back to single space????

The copy and paste is irregular at best and some things just wont! ….and don't get me started on the spoiler. A lot of my content has spoilers and nested spoilers. It made it very clean for reference for me AND for anyone who wished to see the details or not….I'm not going to recreate that scenario each and every time I update.

The Preview was awesome as well. The ability to see what you were about to post vs….let's just hit the button and pray!

I am in upwards of 8 groups and am Admin in two of them. Prior to this change, I could update all those groups as well as participate in the chats in 90 minutes or less. Now it's taking me 3+ hours and then I'm not satisfied with my output….

I use emoji's to indicate success or not like ✅❌. Well when I try to copy and paste those to existing lines…. this is what happens. Then I have to go "Fix" each line, hence 3+ hours. I don't have time for this!

Existing Line1

✅

Existing Line 2

✅

Existing Line 3

All of which I prefer to be single spaced.

I've heard one person say they liked the changes and many considering leaving…

I'm sure there's more ……please consider another source for editing.

@LisaInArkansas Ctrl/Cmd-Z (or whatever your usual Undo keyboard shortcut is) can remove quotes/spoilers and the like. You can also click on the quote to delete it;

If you were going to improve things, here are two:

— Allow us to add Signatures
— Make the profile pictures bigger so we can actually see each other!!!

Any way to single space lines?

It's really annoying when I hit enter and my lines are double or triple spaced.

Don't like it.

@sydditt @sydditt leave a space before each

Yes, me too. I use the Android app 99% of the time. There is no "Shift" key.

Not able to replicate that; have you tried repowering on your device or restarting the app? Give that a try. If you continue to have issues please send a support request (you can add "Attn: Durden" to the title to make sure it gets to me) in with some screenshots/other info so I can take a look.

Yes. I just explained it - or hope I did 😉 - on another thread.

The MFP Community, under the covers, is really a piece of software called Vanilla Forums. There's a lot of info online about details of Vanilla Forums' rich text editor. This is what it says about code blocks:

Code blocks

The code block format option formats your text as code and includes syntax highlighting for some of the more common coding languages. When you input code, the coding language is automatically detected and the syntax is highlighted accordingly. Rich Editor currently supports:

ADA

Apache

AppleScript

C++

Bash

BASIC

Clojure

CMake

CSS

Dart

Dockerfile

Excel

Go

Haskell

HTTP

Java

JavaScript

JSON

Kotlin

Less

Lua

Makefile

Markdown

NGINX

Objective-C

Perl

PHP

PowerShell

Python

Ruby

Rust

SCSS

SQL

Swift

Twig

TypeScript

XML

YAML

Source: https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/615-rich-editor

If you don't write code, no reason to care or use code blocks. If you want to paste a table from something like Excel, you can just copy/paste it, code blocks aren't necessary.

Is there a limit to how long posts can be? I just spent an hour and a half working on my group's weekly assignments in a post, trying to figure this all out. (I hate these ginormous boxes instead of simple blue, clickable links). Anyway, when I went to hit "post" I got an error message saying my post was something like 71000 characters too long. What does that mean? Am I going to have to do multiple shorter posts?

@durden ,

I think she might mean things like this, shown in a screen shot of part of a post I made earlier linking another MFP thread from my post.

I haven't quite figured out under what circumstances we get that instead of the old one-line blue URL link, because I admit I don't care very much, but it is mildly annoying . . . and I can see how it would make a post with many links difficult to read.