MATLAB: Desperate: Images and formatting in the forum

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Dear readers, dear TMW,
  • It has been discussed repeatedly how newcomers could be encouraged to apply a proper code formatting. But the About MATLAB Answers manual still does not contain explanations about formatting.
  • One of the killer features of this forum is the ability to show pictures, but the users are forced to host them on foreign servers. Unfortunately the readers have to bear the commercials of these hosters, must reduce their security by enabling JavaScript to see the images, and last but not least the limited life-time of the pictures on these servers let become more and more old thread meaningless.
Several other important points can be found in the wish list, which is growing for years. The high quality of the suggestions and the engaged contributions of the users are not accompanied by a careful consideration by the TMW team. Many suggestions, which could be accomplished in less than an hour, are still waiting for — what?
We know, that a conservative strategy is valuable in the development of Matlab. But the inert maintenance of the forum is counter productive. It feels like TMW does not care, while the forum's interface does not approach an adult status with an appropriate level of usability, see e.g. the keyboard latency problem.
This is not a question. All I've said has been discussed exhaustively before already. But perhaps TMW forgot that we are still waiting.

Best Answer

Your wish is our (eventual) command! You can now attach images and files by using these new and revamped editor toolbar buttons:
I put a few more details into a blog post.
We've also made some tweaks to the markup editor that should reduce the amount of broken formatting--the editor now does a better job of detecting when extra newlines should be inserted.