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forum needs markdown support

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Posted: 26.5.2014
Edited: 26.5.2014

forum needs markdown support

at least comments to userscripts need markdown support, plain text isn't really great to discuss things (and code especially)

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Posted: 26.5.2014

Vanilla advertises (http://vanillaforums.com/features/user-experience) the options of:

Markdown: **Bold!**

BBCode: [b]Bold![/b]

HTML: Bold!

So it seems at the moment HTML is enabled. (Presumably only the safer tags...) Not sure that is the best choice for all users.

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Posted: 27.5.2014

Still no BBcode?... It's such a PITB! I forget this is the only forum i visit that doesn't use it, so i constantly use BBCode here and HTML everywhere else after posting here ... and constantly correcting wrong formatting everywhere! and swear like a shoemaker. May of us use BBCode exts. for a reason - convenience. Why can't we have it working here (and us.o, of course)?

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Posted: 27.5.2014

I see. Thanks!

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Posted: 27.5.2014

Actually, markdown seems to be the least developed of the three, and it's the one I know the least, so I won't object to BBCode. Does the forum have a poll feature?

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Posted: 27.5.2014
I don't think I'm going to switch the default. I'm going to add the option.

A plugin that let users switch sounds way better. Hoping something exists or you can easy write it.

... markdown seems to be the least developed of the three...

Can you corroborate that statement...

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Posted: 27.5.2014

even if so, markdown is the most easy one with least symbols needed to markup something

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Posted: 27.5.2014

The easiest is to use BBCodeXtra and let it do it for you with a couple of clicks

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Posted: 27.5.2014

so maybe easiest is to hire a scribe to do all the markup for me then? ;)

I'm talking about actually writing markup.

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Posted: 27.5.2014
... markdown seems to be the least developed of the three...
Can you corroborate that statement...

By least developed, I mean, missing features of HTML and BBCode that I use. For example, I copied my markdown for tables from another site into my script description and they did not render as tables.

|heading|heading|
|---|---|
|text|text|

Part of the problem might be that different sites use different subsets or extensions of markdown, just as BBCode is not equally supported on different sites and gets extended in an ad hoc manner. So I shouldn't blame markdown itself...

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Posted: 27.5.2014
... markdown seems to be the least developed of the three...
Can you corroborate that statement...
By least developed, I mean, missing features of HTML and BBCode that I use. For example, I copied my markdown for tables from another site into my script description and they did not render as tables.
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Part of the problem might be that different sites use different subsets or extensions of markdown, just as BBCode is not equally supported on different sites and gets extended in an ad hoc manner. So I shouldn't blame markdown itself...

Indeed, and what you're refering to is "GitHub Flavored Markdown" (GFM). Something I highly recommend we use for Markdown.

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Posted: 28.5.2014
Edited: 28.5.2014

HTML: srazzano/Sonny made this great custombutton that I use for
userstyles.org   userscripts.org   greasyfork.org
http://custombuttons.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1068&sid=33768c5a80b091b619aec6b4c70db218

MARKDOWN: morat created this Custombutton that I requested and I tagged:
http://custombuttons.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1867&sid=a00c994c86daf87b07440d0fb8cc9683


Custombuttons
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-buttons/


So nice to see you on this forum Jefferson Scher ! ❤

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Posted: 28.5.2014
Indeed, and what you're refering to is "GitHub Flavored Markdown" (GFM). Something I highly recommend we use for Markdown.

+1

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