You realize this is the Stack Overflow blog, right? The site that hosts millions of posts written in Markdown every day? The one that's been sending templated e

You realize this is the Stack Overflow blog, right? The site that hosts millions of posts written in Markdown every day? The one that's been sending templated emails written in Markdown for years? Separation of presentation and content, man. Learn it. You're right about Disqus though. Fortunately, there's Meta SO for real discussion.