Nathan Willis

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Seriously. You guys. In Markdown, this:

= something =

designates a MORE prominent heading than does this:

===== Nothing =====


Hashtag whydoweputupwiththis

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting#Text_formatting_markup too

Looks wrong visually but works mentally every other way. The reverse would be hard to remember. How many levels supported?

I tremendously enjoy Adam Hyde's critique that markdown is just shitty markup ... ah you've read that :) https://lwn.net/Articles/614144/ but I have to admit to being comfortable using it and not sure what revolution looks like.

Mike Linksvayer at 2015-06-16T18:15:10Z

...aka "HTML's arbitrary number of headline levels causes weird ancillary problems for decades to come" AMIRITE?

Nathan Willis at 2015-06-16T18:39:18Z

works fine on Diaspora come hang out there.

lostson at 2015-06-16T18:45:15Z

>> lostson:

“works fine on Diaspora come hang out there.”


As if you needed a completely different network just to use Markdown...

JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2015-06-16T18:48:27Z