Nope, no chance.
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No, they use the WYSIWYG editor it has.
I am a big fan of markdown though.
spoiler Did you know you can nest these?
That's right, someone could make a choose your own adventure game this way
They did not nest properly on boost. But I guess that's not surprising, we only just recently got them at all
It works fine on the lemmy-ui, I'd say you should raise an issue.
I hate it when someone dumps their log file without using a code block. Even seen some Arch Linux users do it, which is, unsurprising really.
No, the average person struggles with WYSIWYG editors
I only know some characters
like this one
Like this one
Does anyone know the best markdown-learning platform?
I would guess they know a bit about lists using “-“ and a few people might know about using asterisk to bold stuff, but other than that probably not.
The issue for a long time was that there is no markdown standard, so everyone had their own version of it.
CommonMark is gaining ground, so hopefully markdown will be the same everywhere soon
No
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Yes, no, maybe.
I don’t know.
Can you repeat the question?
Nope. Most tech people don't know what markdown is.
Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to ~~cross~~ the text. Not much more for a normie, though.
I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold
I wouldn't guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the "normie" world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they're not just pressing the icon in the gui.
Hell, most of them look at me like I'm a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.
Yeah, I'm a normie, I'm tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I'm here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don't even know what gui means. Something user interface? I'm not proud to be this dumb, but I'm pretty sure most "regular" people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.
Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.
Non-professional: "My computer is making a weird buzzing noise"
Professional: "What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?"
You mean ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶? Yeah. It can be done without markdown.
Those are usually broken on screen readers.
OIC. I should have thought about that.
And here I was considering making this the default way of doing a strikethrough.
On the other hand, perhaps we should update the screen readers to make that work. Maybe it can be added as a category of stuff that is to be explained separately.
The least I can do is install a screen reader and know what it does with this.
Google Translate's "Listen" option seems to work well with it though.
Yeah, that exactly. Not a native speaker, huh
No
Maybe?
Nah
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.
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No, and they don't want to
And quartz, of course.
Of course.
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.
Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is:
-
To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. "Mark that down in your notes, so we don't forget."
-
A discount or sale. "Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?"
Any Elder Millennial born after 1979 can’t Markdown, all they know is jot that down, 30% off on jeans, nostalgia for blockbuster, eat hot chip and buy avocado toast
30% markdown on three legged jeans? Damn, that's almost one whole leg for free!
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
Markdown is 100%[^1] intuitive.
[^1]: for certain definitions of 100%.
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No.
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.
No
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