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“I don’t like popular thing. It sucks. There should be something better.” Markdown is popular because it’s useful. It’s useful because it’s easy and free and p
by prepend 4y ago
“I don’t like popular thing. It sucks. There should be something better.”
Markdown is popular because it’s useful. It’s useful because it’s easy and free and portable.
I know html very well, I use markdown because it’s faster to take notes or make simple posts. Also I can teach someone in 5 minutes and they can be productive editing headers and bullets and text.
- prewett 4y agoI'd like Markdown if things were non-arbitrary. Is asterisk or underline italics? Does the href go before or after the link text? And I have no idea what the format of lists is, I guess you just put "-" or "1." and it automatically recognizes it? > Also I can teach someone in 5 minutes I bet you can teach people the subset of HTML that includes the Markdown features in about five minutes, too.
- prepend 4y agoI think it’s harder to teach html because there are start/end, paragraphs, like breaks, quotes, etc. it’s much harder. I’ve had no success with non-tech people updating html stored in repos and file systems.