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Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fin
by anderspitman 5y ago
Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode.
EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.
- Arubis 5y agoSettings -> Advanced -> Format Messages with Markup may be the first thing worth doing for you when Slack comes back online.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoThey have one. Kinda.
- niij 5y agoPreferences --> Advanced --> Format messages with markup. ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶r̶k̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶s̶t̶y̶l̶e̶ ̶U̶R̶L̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶:̶ ̶ ̶[̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶t̶e̶!̶]̶(̶h̶t̶t̶p̶s̶:̶/̶/̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶.̶c̶o̶m̶)̶ Never mind, it looks like Slack has fixed this!
- goerz 5y agoI think it does, but only when "Format messages with markup" is on, see https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-Format-your-messages https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-Format-your-messag... and the asterisk at the bottom
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- anderspitman 5y agoTHANK YOU Honestly surprised I haven't come across this before. Also, link formatting seems to be working for me?
- niij 5y agoThis was broken when I tried it out during the Markdown-->WYSIWYG switchover a while back. I updated my OP to show they have actually fixed this (go Slack!). I just switched back to Markdown again.
- ihuman 5y agoThey originally got rid of markdown completely when they added the WYSIWYG editor, then added that preference after people complained
- niij 5y agoYep, I remember that. It was quite the controversy at the time.
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- jakswa 5y agoI still have my pitchfork from all the bugs I encountered when they released the new formatting (still works wonky depending on the workspace for me). That said, I believe this is an option since they changed things: I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode. That toggle is buried in the preferences/settings under "advanced." Format messages with markup The text formatting toolbar won’t show in the composer.