Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News support Markdown in comments?

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News support Markdown in comme... by forgotmypw17 on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:20PM (#23432702)

As implemented in most places, Markdown does many unexpected things to user text. e.g. changing numbers in lists, breaking some urls, breaking textart.

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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News support Markdown in comme... by jolmg on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:07PM (#23435437)

In Gitlab's Markdown, I don't know how to insert a backtick in between backticks. I tried escaping it with a backslash, by doubling it, etc. It seems impossible to put a single plainly-visible backtick.

HN could be said to have a very minimal Markdown, with it's support for using asterisks for adding italics. We can't have plain asterisks, because of that, though.

I rather have no Markdown than Markdown that doesn't have escaping facilities to allow expressing all plaintext.

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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Hacker News support Markdown in comme... by ahuang1018 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:33AM (#23464570)

Actually you could insert a backtick in between backticks in GitLab's markdown. ref: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/82722

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