There's a setting somewhere to change the default to WYSIWYG from BB, I'll edit the post once I've located it.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?account/preferences
Setting is listed as
Use the rich text editor to create and edit messages
I do not want to use WYSIWYG; WYSIWYG is horrible, bad, and like Word! Anyway I tried changing back to the WYSIWYG editor and what happened? The editor decided that because I previously had used bold and italic now I had to use both for the rest of the post and I couldn't turn them off... (without hitting the remove all formatting button, but that defeats the purpose).
Plus what is really bad about WYSIWYG is that it interprets the code inside the editor. So if you e.g. quote a picture you will see the picture in the quote and not the code for the picture...
When writing a post I am interested in the code; not the end result. Similarly when writing a document you don't have the editor compile the document as you write. No you write up the code and then you compile when you are ready to see the result.
All I want is a non WYSIWYG editor with hotkeys---i.e. like what we had on the old forum. Because when writing a post it becomes really cumbersome to edit e.g. upscaled text in the rich editor, because that shows the upscaled text and removes the size code; so I essentially have to mark the text, get the mouse, go to the size drop down, change the size in that. Or I have to delete the text and write it again with a different size number in the size tags. How on earth is that user friendly?