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Ask HN: Are there any messaging apps supporting Markdown?
I'd like to easily send formatted code, and bullet points, etc. through a messaging app without having to resort to a heavy app like Slack.
- walterbell 6y agoWire supports a subset of markdown syntax, https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002676029-Use-markdown-to-format-text https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002676029-Use-... You can register for a free personal account with only an email, no requirement for phone number or contacts upload.
- scrollaway 6y agoDiscord works great, lighter than slack.
- shakna 6y agoRiot seems to support a subset of Markdown. You should be able to use any Matrix client you feel like.
- ta17711771 6y agoAnd their encryption is audited! riot-desktop and Riot Android are solid. RiotX on Android quickly catching up, has very modern UI, but no room management/calls yet. People seem to love FluffyChat. Don't waste your time with Fractal.
- oehtXRwMkIs 6y agoRiotX is really nice. I wish the other clients would catch up in terms of UI/UX which I hear is getting a big update soon.
- westurner 6y agoMattermost supports CommonMark Markdown: https://docs.mattermost.com/help/messaging/formatting-text.html https://docs.mattermost.com/help/messaging/formatting-text.h... Zulip supports ~CommonMark Markdown: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/markdown.html https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/markdown.h... Reddit supports Markdown. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown Discourse now supports CommonMark Markdown. GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and Gogs/Gitea support Markdown.
- aciswhat 6y agoI wouldn't consider Discourse/Reddit/Github/etc. to be a messaging app per se, even if some of those have messaging functionality between users...
- westurner 6y agoI digress on the category definition. Public messaging (without PM or DM features) is still messaging; and often far more useful than trying to forward 1:1 messages in order to bring additional participants onboard. It's worth noting that GH/BB/GL have all foregone PM features; probably for the better in terms of productivity: messaging @all is likely more productive.
- wooptoo 6y agoTelegram has some support. I believe it's an incomplete implementation.
- winrid 6y agoTo respond to OP: https://volt-app.com/ https://volt-app.com/ Related discussion: I've built FastComments to be "realtime" and support markdown. Been thinking of reusing the infrastructure to launch a little chat app, but not sure what the killer feature would be aside from being lightweight... Edited to add Volt link.
- saurik 6y agoWhatsApp isn't "markdown", but supports code blocks using triple backquote (and uses underscore for italics and star for bold, which I think is a lot better than markdown anyway).
- Jugurtha 6y agoWhatsApp supports italic, bold, strikethrough, and monospace using backticks you could use for source code, though no syntax highlighting[1]. [1]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-format-your-messages/ https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-format-your-me...