Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

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Add MarkDown formatting?

Poll ended at 2021-01-23, 08:39

Yes, please.
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14%
It's fine either way.
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36%
No thanks, just BBCode.
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Total votes: 22

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Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2020-12-24, 08:39

Hey folks,

I'm just curious; would y'all be interested in me adding the option to enable markdown formatting in posts on the forum in addition to bbcode (which is used now)?
This would allow you to use basic MD formatting to structure your posts (inline code, code blocks, horizontal rule, bold/italic/strikethrough/sub/super) but would make the forum code more complex and may not work 100% with every old post.

I'm asking since MD is very broadly adopted by now.
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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by moonbat » 2020-12-24, 11:08

Sure, why not :)
If it's not hard to implement/maintain.
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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by vannilla » 2020-12-24, 11:45

I never liked markdown's syntax to be honest, so I'm a bit against this just for that.

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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by moonbat » 2020-12-24, 11:46

vannilla wrote:
2020-12-24, 11:45
I never liked markdown's syntax to be honest, so I'm a bit against this just for that.
It would be in addition to the existing, not a replacement.
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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by vannilla » 2020-12-24, 11:50

moonbat wrote:
2020-12-24, 11:46
It would be in addition to the existing, not a replacement.
Doesn't mean I can't go against it if I don't like it ;)
Also the fact that I personally use only few markup elements doesn't make it very compelling for me to increase the forum codebase size.

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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by moonbat » 2020-12-24, 11:56

I just hope it encourages people to linkify their posts for better aesthetics instead of posting bare URLs when including links.
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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2020-12-24, 12:16

Linkification won't be an option in MD formatting. This is just for basic MD markup.
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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by adesh » 2020-12-24, 12:44

moonbat wrote:
2020-12-24, 11:56
I just hope it encourages people to linkify their posts for better aesthetics instead of posting bare URLs when including links.
Off-topic:
Bare URLs are okay for touchscreen devices where you can't hover to see the actual link in the status bar.

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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2020-12-24, 13:53

I am not a fan of markdown. If you are to do anything I think most of the format buttons just need their text lables back like 3.1 and older had.

That might solve some problems with bad posting.

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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by Isengrim » 2020-12-24, 14:40

I'm on the fence, leaning towards no only because of the off case where special characters end up being accidentally treated as MD formatting by the parser. But for me this is a minor concern.
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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by therube » 2020-12-24, 16:58

I'm on the No end.

They way I look at it, as a user, is that the forum, phpBB, is "clean", the existing tools are sufficient (even providing more then most other places), & are these new tools really going to provide worthwhile benefit?

So why muddy the waters?

(Heh, I don't even use the existing tools - correctly.
Can't imagine what I'd do with new ones ;-).
See that, this comment probably should have been in an "offtopic" block - but, oh well.
As far as hot link creation, Copy URL Plus is probably in
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But then I didn't see it PM/addons/ so, it is not supported... & won't work some time in the future...)

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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by Lucio Chiappetti » 2020-12-24, 21:07

I don't even know what you are talking about.
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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by Kendo » 2020-12-24, 22:18

No thanks. Font formatting can result in ugly and sometimes illegible messages.

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Re: Allowing markdown formatting on the forum?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2020-12-24, 22:33

K thanks message received loud and clear. Just thought i'd toss it up since I had it as an option.
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