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I completely agree[0]. My point however is that for a long time, GitHub was seen among business people as a tool just for programmers. The product has matured
by yakshaving_jgt 2y ago
I completely agree[0].
My point however is that for a long time, GitHub was seen among business people as a tool just for programmers. The product has matured enough that it’s now generally approachable for non-nerds (although business people still find Markdown weird and hard).
[0]: https://ifuckinghatejira.com/ https://ifuckinghatejira.com/
- rmunn 2y agoI thought Jira's slowness was just me, because our server is in the US and I'm in Asia and they designed it so that any lag in communicating with the server gives you a terrible experience in their frontend. Turns out no, it's slow for everyone: https://ifuckinghatejira.com/57/ https://ifuckinghatejira.com/57/ And Markdown is weird and hard once you want to do anything more advanced than basic bold/italics, links, and bulleted lists. Mostly because there was no formal syntax and every site implements slightly different extensions so there's like half a dozen different "flavors" of Markdown. We devs just forget about that because we've gotten used to the GitHub flavor. But it is indeed a weird syntax; its only advantage is that HTML is even weirder and harder to type. (Which is a big advantage, don't get me wrong).