Wondering if your typical/average/normie person (millennials and younger) know it or know about it. It’s enabled on reddit and discord?
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I think less than 50% of people with access to technology are tech literate enough to know what markdown is. I don’t think age really applies here so much as interest in technology.
Just because I drive a car doesn’t mean I know or care about how it works. It’s just a tool.
I would even say less than 5%
Lol, yeah. I’m probably being too optimistic.
Are you telling me you can’t identify some of the common symptoms of a failing alternator!? Pshhhh…
:P
No
No.
Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where their basic plain-text formatting (like asterisks for bullets) will get cleaned up to a prettier format when they post it.
They may not know the name of the format or all the available features.
No
Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is:
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To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. “Mark that down in your notes, so we don’t forget.”
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A discount or sale. “Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?”
And yet you just used it! Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like:
- Numbering your items
- will automatically format them
- into ordered lists
- and if you use
-it’s an unordered list
- same with asterisk
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And quartz, of course.
Of course.
**NO**
Another millenial here. I’ve known about markdown forever, but I also LIVED online as a teenager. I suspect most people I know would think similarly to the other commenter if asked.
They do not imho
I’m gonna go with no. I don’t think enough platforms use it natively.
WhatsApp good enough?
Does WhatsApp actually use markdown? The implementation is awful then.
Probably doesn’t follow the spec very closely.
It doesn’t require you to put a double space in the end off a line to get to the next. This is similar to a lot of other implementations you see on web pages.
But it does at least follow through with single level ordered and unordered lists (bullets and numbering) and even automatically adds a bullet when you press Shift+Enter
Also, single line code and code blocks, work.
Then there is the usual italics and bold and even a quote block.It also converts most of them while you type, instead of you having to wait until sending it, which is better than UIs that don’t even have a preview button. I like Preview buttons.
I’d say, it’s good enough for casual stuff.
My opinion
spoiler
- I don’t know for sure
- My opinion doesn’t matter at all
But I think, they know Markdown only, if they are involved in
Reddit,Wikipedia,Obsidian/Silverbullet self-hostingor were Skypevictimsheavy-users.don’t forget Discord
victimsusers
I know enough to get by, but the thing is the syntax isn’t always the same between platforms. Sometimes I make an Empty Hyperlink just to have colorful text and people ask me “Woah how’d you do that?” and I explain it to them but I can’t always show them without it auto formatting so they just never figure it out lol.
Looks like Lemmy formats empty hyperlinks as loops back here.
I fucking clicked it. I don’t know what i was expecting.
Looks like Lemmy formats empty hyperlinks as loops back here.
Depends on the app, and maybe also the instance you’re using?
In eternity for lemmy it shows as a link to
https://www.reddit.com/if I long press it, but has aninvalid linkerror if I try to click it.
