A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behavio... by lights0123 on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:27PM (#26868148)

> literally the only place on the internet

Haven't worked with forum software other than Discourse, have you? They all still use BBCode.

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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behavio... by charrondev on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:30PM (#26869790)

I work at Vanilla Forums (we power some of the largest communities online).

I’ve worked a lot on our editors and content formatting pipelines. We support plaintext, markdown, HTML, BBCode, and a WYSIWYG editor with markdown shortcuts.

In reality is estimate the distribution is mostly the WYSIWYG editor nowadays for newer sites and BBCode for the older ones (some users on older entrenched communities really like their BBCode I guess).

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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behavio... by ramses0 on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:52PM (#26868337)

True, but it's such a mismatch in expectations where the entire tech industry has embraced markdown, but n.yc (tech mecca / water cooler) is most decidedly (and surprisingly) uses NotMarkdown(tm).

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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behavio... by Spooky23 on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:13PM (#26869706)

HN is an institution. The tech industry should be ashamed that they have HN modes.

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