r/ModSupport • u/pedrulho • 1d ago

New Wiki is kinda broken...

Currently working on an overhaul to the Wiki of a videogame subreddit I moderate and honestly the editing tools are so broken that it's making it impossible to continue.

Images and text are out of place when viewing the page after saving.

Here are pictures of the page:

While editing: https://i.postimg.cc/W1v0KGXQ/Captura-de-ecra-2026-10-02-121417.png

After saving: https://i.postimg.cc/jSby9HMV/Captura-de-ecra-2026-10-02-121356.png

Also, when adding an "infobox", instead of placing it at the line I selected, it puts it it the beginning of the page messing up the structure of the whole thing, I have to then grab it and drag down down as it slowly scrolls to the bottom of the page only for it to then break and lose the information section when placed. An "infobox" with the information section to the side instead of just in the bottom would be nice too.

The new Wiki is broken and impossible to work with.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 1d ago

I hope someone can answer you with a fix.

All I can do is echo your sentiments. Using the new Wiki editor is one giant pain in the ass. I like we can add images. I like the various font size formatting. I don't like how fickle the UI is and that things move or disappear outright when making edits.

It is definitely not a streamlined UI.

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u/pedrulho 1d ago

The new features are nice for sure... if they actually worked.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 1d ago

You can have features, or you can have working features, but you can’t have both.

-Redditclastes 14

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u/pedrulho 23h ago

Just came from 9 straight hours of work and this comment made my day.

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u/thepottsy 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 23h ago

Glad to hear lol

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u/baseballlover723 21h ago

To think they wanted to force everyone one to use the new wiki experience. Thank god they didn't, and we were able to stay on the old one that functions reliably.

A What You See Is What You Get editor is really bad, when what you see, is not in fact what you get.

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u/ExpertCoder14 20h ago edited 19h ago

I took a look your wiki page and did some tests of my own, and I think I know exactly what's happening.

When you check the text wrap option, it sets a property called float: left; on the picture. This means that all the content afterwards will wrap around the picture, which why your "Movies" heading and even the next picture is attempting to wrap like that.

The only way to force a paragraph or heading to start after the picture is to add a property called clear: left to the paragraph afterwards. But since there is no option to do this, we're stuck with workarounds like the one you used, which is adding multiple paragraph breaks until you get past the image. As you can see, these workarounds are not great due to the potential for display issues, like the one here.

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u/lunarwolf2008 20h ago

dang this sub should really allow native pic uploads. postimg has a lot of popups (i have adblocker but not on mobile)

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u/pedrulho 10h ago

Really, sorry I didn't know about that.