Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor

Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by vorpalhex on Friday June 23, 2023 @10:51AM (#36447598)

I support a markdown WYSIWYG flow and it is a constant source of pain for our users. At this point I just tell our users to write markdown plain - and after a 10 minute tutorial, everyone is comfortable doing that.

Slack's "markdown" is horrifically broken and one of the worst markdown experiences in existence. I believe they no longer even refer to it as markdown since they have strayed so far from the spec.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by StackOverlord on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:31AM (#36448272)

Same problem with the comment box in Reddit.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by hunter2_ on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:53AM (#36448600)

I always get a good chuckle when I see comments that get unexpectedly processed as a new ordered list. Like if replying to a 3-item comment by starting with "4. " which renders as "1. " -- for the sake of users who don't know these nuances of markdown, I wish it strayed a bit further to accommodate them.

Bold, italics, links, etc. -- sure, false positives there are rare enough and the means of correcting mishaps are intuitive enough. The OL issue though... so many go uncorrected.

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Re:Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG M... by chatmasta on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:31AM (#36448274)

> the worst markdown experiences in existence

This title belongs to ClickUp.

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