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Re:Why Is Markdown Popular? by chopin on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:49AM (#33370712)
> No, no you absolutely don't. Almost no one uses a WYSIWYG for markdown. That would completely negate the point.

Afaik GitHub and Stackoverflow use markdown WYSIWYG editors. That'd cover a big chunk of users.

Re:Why Is Markdown Popular? by mcluck on Friday October 28, 2022 @12:31PM (#33373673)
You're incorrect. They include buttons for generating some markdown and a separate preview option but at the end of the day, people are writing markdown. I feel pretty certain that most people who use either of those tools regularly eventually learn the syntax and just type it out because it's faster