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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by sillysaurusx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:55AM (#23515443)
It's mainly to work around bugs in the system. For example:

site: https://www.shawwn.com/thanks

markdown: https://www.shawwn.com/thanks.page

If you "view source" on the markdown page, you'll see:

  Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/theshawwn">@theshawwn</a>
The reason is that [@theshawwn](https://twitter.com/theshawwn) didn't convert into HTML for some reason. I assume the @ character threw it off, and I didn't want to drop what I was doing to figure out why. But there are a million small things like that.

For https://collectednotes.com/shawwn/sample-note, I would put GA into my notes.

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by alecrosa on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:02AM (#23515470)
It works for me: https://collectednotes.com/blog/twitter-usernames

See markdown: https://collectednotes.com/blog/twitter-usernames.md

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Re:Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made by sillysaurusx on Sunday June 14, 2020 @02:09AM (#23515493)
Yes, your markdown implementation is fine. Pandoc (the one I use) seemed broken. The HTML was a way of working around the problem.

The main reason to let users inject HTML is that they can add features you don't have. GA is one; mathjax is another.

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