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Not a fan of markdown myself at least for comment boxes. Everything that uses markdown as input (which seems to be hacker news comments too) ignores a single ne
by Aardwolf 10y ago
Not a fan of markdown myself at least for comment boxes. Everything that uses markdown as input (which seems to be hacker news comments too) ignores a single newline as a single newline, giving you different output than what you see in the box you type it in, which is very bad for intuitive web comment boxes.
Lots of people make that mistake, making a nice listing with newlines in between but them it becomes an ugly single line.
BBcode from forums in the past worked better for comments.
- shthed 10y agoI don't understand why they mess with newlines, what's the reason?
- Aardwolf 10y agoSomebody argued to me that it is to support editing like source code where you want a line length limit like 80 characters. That is a very specific thing for source code editors. But bad for comment boxes. So I don't understand the popularity of markdown for comment boxes. IMHO markdown should have done the opposite, make listening to all your newlines the default, and if you want to make it ignore a newline, end the line with a backslash or something like that.