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Rarely use text styles other than for partial quotes and pasting images. Lemme check here, Chrome on the desktop FWIW

• Bold, not bold (Used Ctrl+B to change style and change back)
• Itlalic, not italic (Used Ctrl+I to change style and change back)
• Strike through, highlighted section, picked strike through do-hickey
• Can't seem to find underline
• Can't find spoiler formatting
• Can't find text sizing
• Can't find text colouring
• Code, copy and pasted in, highlighted section, picked code do-hickey, yuk… loses formatting, rolls lines together

main()
{
printf("Hello world, TGIF!");
}

Original unformatted here, leading whitespace lost by Vanilla

• Links seem ok
• Pasting in some HTML also seem workable if not brilliant

These are results for is vanilla crepe
Search instead for is vannilla crap
AI Overview

Yes, vanilla is a very common flavoring for sweet crepes, often added as vanilla extract to the batter, but "Vanilla Crepe" is also the name of a popular Malaysian dessert chain known for its layered mille crepes (thin pancakes stacked with cream). Essentially, a crepe is a thin pancake, and vanilla makes it a classic sweet treat, whether served plain or as a fancy mille crepe cake. Key points about vanilla crepes:

• Basic Crepe Batter: A simple crepe batter includes flour, eggs, milk, and butter, with vanilla extract and sugar added for sweet versions.

Original

• Can't seem to use whitespace on the first row of a table, ok outside from that

• Pasting tables in from Excel works

• Paste in "Some stuff from Word to check out text size, text font, text colour and text background" (Nope, see image of original below!)

• Undo and redo with Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y work ok

Don't think I'd be trying any of this on my phone, plain text all the way for me there given small screen and chunky fingers. Copy and paste is a bit annoying in that it always starts a new paragraph which makes it a pain for editing

What platform and browser are you using? I've no doubt some are going to be better than others. While I'm likely to get my head blown off for this, I think the editing in Vanilla is ok and probably quicker than vBulletin once you know its limitations. Copying and pasting images is much much easier, as is inserting media. Of course it would be as this is where the chargeable cloud storage gets racked up.

Pasting starting a new paragraph would be the biggest pain for me, if I was on a coding forum the broken coding formatter would be next. Edit, code formatting actually ok when you save the comment, just looks crap in the preview

Fair enough, I know diddly squat about all things Apple. Sounds like Vanilla support is pretty weak.

Be interesting to know the breakdown of platform usage for users here. Windows desktop, Apple desktop, Android, iPhone, iPad, Chromebook, Linux variations etc.. More generally, we see the following breakdown (apologies for the unverified AI dump which should not be treated as gospel)

For overall operating system usage (all devices), Android leads significantly, followed by Windows, then iOS, but for mobile-only, Android dominates with ~72% and iOS has ~27%. Windows is strong in desktop/laptop (around 30-70%, depending on source/device type) but very small in mobile. Market shares fluctuate by device (desktop, mobile, tablet) and region, with Android & iOS ruling mobile, while Windows & macOS lead desktops. Overall OS Market Share (All Devices)

• Android: ~44.5% (most popular OS overall)
• Windows: ~27.4%
• iOS: ~15.9% 

Mobile Devices (Smartphones & Tablets)

• Android: ~72%
• iOS: ~28% 

Desktop Computers (Laptops & PCs)

• Windows: ~71% (leading)
• macOS: ~16% (second) 

Key Takeaways

• Android's Dominance: It's the world's top OS by volume, especially in mobile, notes this Wikipedia article.
• Windows' Desktop Power: It remains the king of PCs, though mobile usage is tiny.
• iOS Strength: A strong second in mobile, but far behind Android globally. 

Personally, I'd truly love to be able to ditch Windows 11 but as a developer for desktop, this where my market it is so it wouldn't be feasible. I think for a lot of commercial software, Vanilla included it seems, support for Apple is patchy and not prioritized.

I think the reasons for staying with Vanilla are that another migration would likely cause a ton of issues, the resources to do a migration don't exist and the deal that was as arrived at with Vanilla had a substantial discount.