Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3153244-20130525142642

As everyone knows, Bloons Wiki offers two modes for editing: Visual Mode and Source Mode. Visual Mode can be thought of as easier to use, especially for new users. Many people enjoy Visual Mode. However, with Visual Mode comes many disadvantages. This includes being unable to edit templates and their parameters as well as incorrect formatting such as extra line spacing.

Source Mode on the other hand, may seem like it's hard-to-use, tedious and unfriendly. However, once you get used to it, it the more advantageous mode to use. Being more convenient, its advantages outweigh those existing for Visual Mode. By having our wiki switch to Source Mode as the default mode for editing instead of Visual Mode, users will also adapt and become accustomed to the formatting of a wiki. Wikipedia, for example, uses Source Mode as the default editing mode. It's not that hard to use, and I'm sure many of you will become accustomed to it. You may argue that you cannot see what you are doing in Source Mode. However, there is a Preview button next to the Publish button to help you see what you have changed.

The point of this thread is not to have Source Mode disabled, but simply to have Source Mode as the default editing mode. What do you think? Should we keep Visual Mode as the default editing mode, or should we switch to Source Mode?

Note: This discussion will end one week after the last reply has been posted. 