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I have heard that the advanced editor can mess with writing and insert strange things into the code that will change fonts and do other strange things.

Is this still a problem? Can I turn off the editor for one story to try writing without it? (I do remember I can turn it off in my profile but I was hesitant to do this because I am used to commenting and writing with it on.)

I simply do not know much about how this works here. Thank you in advance for any help/advice!

You're thinking about the Rich Text Editor. That's the big ugly box you typed that post in with all the buttons around it, and you toggle it off in your profile. It's possible you'll need to log out and then in again for the change to take effect.

That will mean you just need to use HTML tags for italics and bold in your stories. 95% of the time that's all the formatting anybody bothers with anyway, though if you know more advanced stuff about HTML there's a lot more flexibility there.

And you might as well grab the site extension from Brad's profile while you're at it btw, now with the RTE box gone you can give dark mode a try. (It's toggled on in your profile.)

Oh okay, I'll go turn it off and see what happens!

Everything looks so strange... but I appreciate you reminding me about this.

I can see all of the jumbled code that was added to everythng... I'm not sure I can edit past stories now haha.

You can probably just switch it back on for those if you ever need to.