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by marginalia_nu 1492 days ago
> What is terrible about the UX?

It's been a few years now, and they still haven't fixed so you can copy and paste text in their text inputs.

2 comments

Are you using old or new reddit? I can't reproduce your issue on old reddit + RES. Copy-pasting stuff works fine.

I'm using Firefox 100 on Monterey, but I'm sure it worked on previous Firefox versions on Windows 10.

I'm specifically talking about new reddit. Old reddit is fine. Old reddit basically just has a <textarea>.
I copy-paste all the time into Reddit ... what makes you think you can't?
Whenever I do, the text box crashes and I need to switch to basic markdown mode.
Weird

In the 11+y I've been on Reddit, never seen that behavior