Copy paste in WYSIWYG => bad
Technical answers:
- Most of [Ben]'s frustration come from the habit of composing his posts somewhere else (Gmail? GDocs?) and copy-pasting them into the rich text editor. For example, this post starts like this:
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<p><span id=“docs-internal-guid-0558bd29-1675-a636-8411-687604da5047”><span>This post was co-written by [elf Pavlik], [katalin] and [Ben], the others trust in the process. Given our silence, we wanted to give a comprehensive overview of what we’ve been up to and the challenges we’ve faced.<br class=“kix-line-break” />
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We’ll be doing a hangout later today, 17:00 CET.</span></span><br />
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- this breaks the CSS. It can be fixed in two ways: "hygiene" (copy-paste in the Text-only editor, then manually add beautification like bold, bullet points etc.) or "shoot in the heap" (disable Full HTML and enable a Text Format called Limited HTML, that gets rid of all the <div>s and the <span style> but at the price of also stripping some wanted HTML tags like iframe. I think this, too, is customizable, by the way: we can include iframe in the list of authorized tags in HTML. This is exactly the same as in Wordpress and, indeed, in Google Drive: copy paste across websites is typically not CSS neutral
- multiple languages are supported in Drupal. However, one should be careful because the default configuration for all multiple languages stuff (Wordpress too) is that you choose a visualization language and the websites shows you only the content that has a translation that language. I dislike it because it reduces the chances of random encounter across members of the community. Of course, with Drupal it should not be difficult to enforce a mode whereby you are shown all content, in your preferred language if a translation is available and in the original language otherwise. In Egderyders 1 we had 1-click Google Translate integration.