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And Discord as well. Every young person is on Discord, they're all learning some Markdown

ummonk 1y ago
Teams and Slack as well, though they use an odd variant markdown (where single asterisk indicates bold instead of italics).
- bsimpson 1y ago
  I 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 ago
  Teams does not use Markdown AFAIK. I wish it did.
  - ummonk 1y ago
    See 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 ago
  What 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 ago
    Technically speaking, Slack's markup language is mrkdwn.
    - chrismorgan 1y ago
      That’s not technically, that’s marketingly (sure, it was presumably developers that named it, but it’s still marketing). mrkdwn is a horribly misleading name and they should feel guilty. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=chrismorgan+mrkdwn&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=chrismorgan+mrkdwn&type=commen...
  - doublepg23 1y ago
    My least favorite Teams markdown idiosyncrasy is using (foobar) for emoji search instead of :foobar:

Teams and Slack as well, though they use an odd variant markdown (where single asterisk indicates bold instead of italics).

bsimpson 1y ago
I 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 ago
Teams does not use Markdown AFAIK. I wish it did.
- ummonk 1y ago
  See 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 ago
What 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 ago
  Technically speaking, Slack's markup language is mrkdwn.
  - chrismorgan 1y ago
    That’s not technically, that’s marketingly (sure, it was presumably developers that named it, but it’s still marketing). mrkdwn is a horribly misleading name and they should feel guilty. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=chrismorgan+mrkdwn&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=chrismorgan+mrkdwn&type=commen...
- doublepg23 1y ago
  My least favorite Teams markdown idiosyncrasy is using (foobar) for emoji search instead of :foobar: