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Re:StrictMark: Markdown, Refactored by ufo on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:17PM (#25961840)
One downside of markdown being so flexible is that it's hard to remember if a given dialect implements a certain feature, or how it will handle a certain corner case

I think I see the appeal of specifying a robust subset of markdown, something that you can trust will probably be parsed the same way for as many dialects as possible.

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Re:StrictMark: Markdown, Refactored by FriedrichN on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:29PM (#25962022)
I totally agree with this. It's quite annoying you never quite know what dialect some website is using, they never mention, because it seems very few of these dialects have names.

What also annoys me is that they didn't base it off Wiki formatting. It would've been great if it had at least some compatibility for basic stuff like headings and links.

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