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Don't overlook Reddit as a major reason for many otherwise-non-technical people to learn Markdown.
by bsimpson 1y ago
Don't overlook Reddit as a major reason for many otherwise-non-technical people to learn Markdown.
- OJFord 1y agoIt is funny to occasionally see it explained like 'on Reddit you can use ...' and think '..dude, markdown, just tell them you can use markdown' (and then realise oh right yeah ok, your way is probably clearer to them and you probably don't know it as 'markdown' either).
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y agoReddit's Markdown flavor is a bit weird though. It got closer to CommonMark with New Reddit, but the rest of the UI got worse, and people using Old Reddit don't get the formatting the new version supports, so things like code blocks are often broken.
- chrismorgan 1y agoOriginal Markdown didn’t have fenced code blocks either.
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y agoYes, Old Reddit Markdown is much closer to original Markdown than to CommonMark. New Reddit Markdown is closer to CommonMark.
- presbyterian 1y agoAnd Discord as well. Every young person is on Discord, they're all learning some Markdown
- ummonk 1y agoTeams and Slack as well, though they use an odd variant markdown (where single asterisk indicates bold instead of italics).
- bsimpson 1y agoI get bold and italic confused because Google Chat is almost-Markdown except for * being bold and _ being italic (whereas it's double vs singular in classic Markdown).
- cheema33 1y agoTeams does not use Markdown AFAIK. I wish it did.
- ummonk 1y agoSee https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-markdown-formatting-in-microsoft-teams-4d10bd65-55e2-4b2d-a1f3-2bebdcd2c772 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-markdown-form... My company is on Teams and I regularly use Markdown in my messages, though I still struggle to remember that I have to use underscores not asterisks for italics.
- chrismorgan 1y agoWhat things like Slack and WhatsApp use are not variants of Markdown, but entirely unrelated lightweight markup languages <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language>. As for Teams, it looks like it’s much closer to Markdown (uses the same idiosyncratic/stupid link syntax), but still significantly incompatible even if they call it that. And my guess (as a non-user) is that it’s just an input method immediately converted to HTML or similar, not retained as text. So in that way it’s not Markdown either.
- ummonk 1y agoTechnically speaking, Slack's markup language is mrkdwn.