Look who's using Discourse!
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Yeah, from the Who Are You? section of the home page
#Who are you? We're a group of Markdown fans who either work at companies with industrial scale deployments of Markdown, have written Markdown parsers, have extensive experience supporting Markdown with end users – or all of the above.
- John MacFarlane, jgm@berkeley.edu
- David Greenspan, david@meteor.com
- Vicent Marti, vicent@github.com
- Neil Williams, neil@reddit.com
- Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe, ben@stackexchange.com
- Jeff Atwood, jatwood@codinghorror.com
Derp.
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Isn't "standard markdown" kind of an oxymoron?
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No?
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Do like that morons even deserve oxygen?
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Markdown because bbcode was too structured and made too much sense and latex is teh sux.
No seriously, when markdown crap crossed into documentation territory it became wtf.
Now all we need is someone to propose merging wikipedia syntax in markdown!
At least you can insert tabs in wiki syntax.
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Wikisyntax can shove that pipe bollocks for tables where the sun doesn't shine.
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Wikisyntax can shove that pipe bollocks for tables where the sun doesn't shine.
Imagine the Discourse implementation of that.
Filed under: Yeah yeah, the Evil Ideas thread is thattaway
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I would rather not, thank you.
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Imagine the Discourse implementation of that.
Filed under: Yeah yeah, the Evil Ideas thread is thattaway
Infinni-shove™!
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>have written Markdown "parsers"
using regexesOh, goody. ** bolds the first ", but not the second one. No, I'm not going to fix the formatting; let it stand as a monument to the quality of the parser.
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That's so Discoursistent.
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Now all we need is someone to propose merging wikipedia syntax in markdown!
I actually just recently asked the admin of our company wiki to enable Markdown syntax with a plugin. Tables are, of course, still done in html between nowiki tags. That's missing brackets because Discourse erases it.
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There's quite the murmur among some circles about this, particularly on hacker news
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Apparently that domain name is going away. If I had thought of this coming up, I would have grabbed every markdown domain name I could think of and redirected them to some sort of fetish porn.
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@Intercourse said:
I would have grabbed every markdown domain name I could think of and redirected them to some sort of fetish porn.
How would this have changed anything?
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It wouldn't but it would have been funny.
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How would this have changed anything?
Because they have to change their domain name for the project and if I had been lucky and picked up commonmarkdown.com and all other sane names....
Jokes are not nearly as funny if you have to explain them.
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Whoosh!…
@Intercourse said:
Because they have to change their domain name for the project and if I had been lucky and picked up commonmarkdown.com and all other sane names....
Look up there! That's where my joke went…
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Atwood missed a chance to tell the original developer of Markdown to STFU.
So the guy ignores Markdown--but maintains a clear presence otherwise on the Internet--for some amount of time. Atwood and others try to work out a standardized version, which, in and of itself, isn't automatically a bad thing, and ask him for his blessing and/or help, and he completely ignores them for two years, waits until they announce their product, and THEN Gruber gets all butthurt? They should have told him to FOAD and kept the name.