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> Slack also uses Markdown. No it doesn't. It uses something they call mrkdwn, which is only vaguely superficially similar to Markdown. In most important place
by chrismorgan 2y ago
> Slack also uses Markdown.
No it doesn't. It uses something they call mrkdwn, which is only vaguely superficially similar to Markdown. In most important places, mrkdwn has made different decisions from Markdown. It's a completely different, and far more rudimentary, Lightweight Markup Language.
- riffic 2y agoit's better than whatever Microsoft Teams makes you use.
- saratogacx 2y agoTeams (and I believe Slack too) uses what I call MS Word formatting (They call it "Auto format as you type"). A lot of the markup you can do in teams came from elements that do the same in Word/Outlook/etc.
- j1elo 2y agoIn my defense I'll say that with that "also" in my mind I was thinking on the previous phrase, so I was referring to a "Markdown-esque syntax for message formatting"... Nevertheless, good catch