Answers is shutting down

To be fair, the forum does currently work bettern than UA. I don't know how they even managed to screw up UA that much over the years. The sudden markdown fail that started several years ago was one of the strangest things (paragraphs don't work anymore, most margins / paddings are screwed up, especially for bullet point or numbered lists).

I actually prefered the markdown editor here. The wysiwyg approach on the forum does actually cause more issues than it solves. When you copy something from a website or from other posts the copied formatting is most the time just a hassle. However the Forum has several good features (spoiler sections, working image uploads, proper quotes). The most annoying thing about the forum for me is that when switching to the BB markdown mode you don't get any toolbar. So you would have to type all tags yourself. In addition in the normal Rich text mode some elements are rich text and some are still BB code tags. I would prefer a plain BB code editor, but with a toolbar like we have here on UA. It's just a strange mix. Though it's all just a matter of time to get used to how it works. The same is true with the broken UA.

Most people that are still active here are probably used to adding <BR> when they need a paragraph.

Another good feature that UA had at the very beginning is the notification system that informs you when new posts have been made to the thread you're currently viewing. Though that was a stack exchange engine feature and when UA switched to qato many of the great features were gone. I also don't like too much power in single hands. vote for close is how it should be IMO.