I’ve only been using the site for a little while, mostly working on wiki pages as I try to “import” my campaign from ye old overstuffed binder.

One thing I find clunky is having to scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the “Save” button. Especially since for the most part I’m just working in the main window, and I have to scroll past the big empty “GM Only” window to find it. I’m not sure exactly where, but another Save button near the top of the page would be nice.

Most wiki’s I’ve worked on also have some sort of a preview feature. Since there isn’t one here, I essentially have to save the page in order to see if I’ve gotten the formatting correct. It’s not a big deal, but I wonder if it isn’t putting extra load on the site to have all these unnecessary saves? (Though I dunno how a preview feature works on the back end – obviously it has to parse then serve up the formatted text, so maybe it’s almost as bad.)

The wiki I use at work (Confluence) has tabbed layout with edit and preview tabs. This is very nice as you can easily jump back and forth between the raw source and the preview. Better than having a “Preview” button, then “Save” and “Edit some more” buttons on the preview page.

I feel your pain. The lack of preview is definitely an issue, and even more so in the case of comments.

In our case, a preview would probably entail pretty much the same server load, as all our parsing / rendering is done server-side, so a preview feature would still require a hit to the server. However, it’s not a big deal and we’re not stressing the server too much now (thanks to Ryan’s recent optimizations). Maybe when things get bigger, but we’ll cross that bridge when we (hopefully) come to it.

The save button at the top is a good idea, and easy to do. We try to go for a “bang for the buck” approach and make small, easy usability changes that make everything a little nicer without entailing lots of development work.

Thanks for the suggestions and keep them coming!