BBCode is no longer allowed with the upgrade. I'm looking at ways to backfill editing features everyone liked to use (e.g. inline code), but we won't support bbcode any longer (and it's being phased out of most modern systems). Markdown was considered as well, but we won't support it for a little while.

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I too would really like a markup-based editing mode for crafting posts in offsite text editors like Notepad++.

I also find managing quotations to be a lot easier with explicit quote tags. But more importantly I can't craft a post that involves quotes in an external text editor. I expect that writing posts with bad comms (e.g. on the train) is a lot harder/scarier now but I hope that if I click Submit and it fails that it will retain my text in the editor.

Edit: Interestingly my quote tags were honoured by the editor. I did not know that!

I can confirm, the new editor is much better at auto saving at restoring content if something goes wrong than previous versions were, it's been a real life saver getting articles ready for publication.

Yes, pretty please bring in some markup mode, be it BBCode, Markup, or whatever. I can't simply edit/copy/paste or save my journal posts anymore outside without all the formatting gone.

I'm currently (slowly) restoring my 100 step journal entries, I have to re-edit every code piece as the line breaks are gone once I enter edit mode.