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That would break any existing comments that happened to be using markdown syntax as punctuation. Although I suppose you could have a flag day for the changeover
by quietbritishjim 8y ago
That would break any existing comments that happened to be using markdown syntax as punctuation. Although I suppose you could have a flag day for the changeover and format differently based on comment creation time.
But I think the very limited formatting is just fine anyway. For the above comment as an example, I agree the code formatting looks awful, especially on mobile. But the version with >'s is ok, and I don't think proper bullet points or a quote bar would have improved it dramatically.
- Leace 8y agoConversations.im uses an interesting trick for rendering Markdown [0] - it leaves the syntax as is, so in the worst case you've got text with weird bold/italics, but the characters are 1:1 identical to what was sent. [0]: Actually not Markdown but a subset but it's not important.