Sorry, poor choice of words.
I thought hacker news used markdown, but I guess has its own thing.
I can see the severely constrained formatting options of hacker news has both positive and negative consequences.
I thought hacker news used markdown, but I guess has its own thing.
I can see the severely constrained formatting options of hacker news has both positive and negative consequences.
Markdown is fast to type for the majority of use cases since you have:
- bullet points
- headings
- __bold__
- __italic__
- `inline code`
- etc
```
fn you_even(_have: &str) -> &str { "nifty little code blocks without needing to indent" }
```
And more importantly, markdown syntax preserves the structure of the document without harming legibility, unlike say latex or HTML. That limits it, since the syntax is small, but also reduces friction in learning/writing markdown.
Also, Reddit + GitHub.