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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by steindavidb on Sunday March 25, 2018 @11:35AM (#16672620)

Commonmark is a wonderful and well defined markdown standard (ie the one GitHub uses)

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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by alanh on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:18AM (#16676566)

I’m not sure that GitHub uses CommonMark! Generally GitHub's format is referred to as GFM (GitHub-Flavored Markdown) and it has notable differences including preserving newlines.

Notably, GitHubbers and StackOverflow representatives joined to define CommonMark, but GitHub and StackOverflow do not have remotely similar fenced code block conventions.

Also, CommonMark currently says that they have not yet defined a version 1.0 of the spec.

I certainly applaud the effort, but CommonMark did not unify all the Markdowns.

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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by seandougall on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:15PM (#16672830)

Cited in the spirit of good humor, but not irrelevant: https://xkcd.com/927/

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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by sincerely on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:55PM (#16673061)

Serious question - how is it not irrelevant? Should it be posted any time people discuss the pros and cons of various standards?

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Re:Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all ou... by alanh on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:19AM (#16676571)

To be fair, this is exactly what happened, since CommonMark did not cause all Markdown users and implementors to converge.

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