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A couple of years back, I helped move Fastmail’s blog from a home-grown thing from the mid-2000s that used Markdown.pl, to Ghost. It was nowhere near trivial. L
by chrismorgan 6y ago
A couple of years back, I helped move Fastmail’s blog from a home-grown thing from the mid-2000s that used Markdown.pl, to Ghost. It was nowhere near trivial. Line break behaviour changed, handling of indentation changed, treatment of raw HTML and Markdown characters within HTML tags changed… I fixed everything I noticed, but there was a lot of incompatibility, and old posts would have looked uniformly bad without some of the fixes we applied.
- TheRealPomax 6y agoTo be fair, the mid-2000s are fifteen+ years ago, which might as well be a century ago when it comes to both markdown, static site generators, and even the web in general. I've been through similar pains myself, but not in the last five years: there's been plenty of tooling to strict-format all content prior to starting any conversion, and plenty of tooling to convert from one flavour of markdown to another (although, mind you, sometimes that means converting away from markdown first, then converting that back to your new flavour).