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Mattermost team here, We had dozens of community members upvote a feature to add markdown and we added it because it made sense. Now we really love it and can

by it33 11y ago

Mattermost team here, We had dozens of community members upvote a feature to add markdown and we added it because it made sense. Now we really love it and can't go back: http://www.mattermost.org/open-source-slack-alternative-adopts-markdown/ http://www.mattermost.org/open-source-slack-alternative-adop... Headings have a lot of uses for emphasizing text, and there's fun uses too like creating different sized emoticons: http://www.mattermost.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sheep.png http://www.mattermost.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sheep.p... ##### :sheep: #### :sheep: ### :sheep: ## :sheep: # :sheep:

JD557 11y ago
What about text preceded by a # (eg. HTML colors, hash tags, numerals...)? Do you escape # if it's next character is not a whitespace?
- it33 11y ago
  Correct, escape if # is not followed by whitespace. Mattermost markdown is based on GitLab Flavored Markdown: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/6-4-stable/doc/markdown/markdown.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/6-4-stable/doc/...
rpedela 11y ago
> We had dozens of community members upvote a feature to add markdown and we added it because it made sense. What made sense? Is there a use case that requires full Markdown support? If so, what is it?
- codezero 11y ago
  I use Slack's 'Posts' feature which is a full Markdown post that you can embed in a chat in Slack. The reasons I use these are: 1. Rich content, organized & clean lists with outbound links for status updates about things I'm working on, linking to Asana/Github 2. Notes from one on ones, or general progress updates that I keep in a private channel and save basically as a stream-of-consciousness/reality log, having them there makes them readily accessible in product and having them in Markdown makes them very readable when I'm browsing through. In short, I treat Slack rooms almost like I would treat a folder in Dropbox, they just happen to also include some chat between people :P

by it33 11y ago

JD557 11y ago

What about text preceded by a # (eg. HTML colors, hash tags, numerals...)? Do you escape # if it's next character is not a whitespace?

it33 11y ago
Correct, escape if # is not followed by whitespace. Mattermost markdown is based on GitLab Flavored Markdown: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/6-4-stable/doc/markdown/markdown.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/6-4-stable/doc/...

rpedela 11y ago

> We had dozens of community members upvote a feature to add markdown and we added it because it made sense. What made sense? Is there a use case that requires full Markdown support? If so, what is it?

codezero 11y ago
I use Slack's 'Posts' feature which is a full Markdown post that you can embed in a chat in Slack. The reasons I use these are: 1. Rich content, organized & clean lists with outbound links for status updates about things I'm working on, linking to Asana/Github 2. Notes from one on ones, or general progress updates that I keep in a private channel and save basically as a stream-of-consciousness/reality log, having them there makes them readily accessible in product and having them in Markdown makes them very readable when I'm browsing through. In short, I treat Slack rooms almost like I would treat a folder in Dropbox, they just happen to also include some chat between people :P