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Re:Wysiwtfftwomg by ams6110 on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:45PM (#6582117)
There is really no more difficulty in learning Markdown than there is difficulty in learning how to avoid all the baffling, un-undo-able ways that most rich text boxes can completely stuff up the formatting of your content, to the point where you simply have to wipe it all out and start over.
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Re:Wysiwtfftwomg by andrewflnr on Sunday October 20, 2013 @10:08PM (#6582775)
Objectively, Markdown isn't hard to learn, but people don't really want to learn anything, they just want to look for the button. Discoverability is, for most people, an important advantage of GUIs over most interpretation-of-freeform-text interfaces (like command lines and programming or formatting languages).
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Re:Wysiwtfftwomg by johnjlocke on Monday October 21, 2013 @12:40AM (#6583367)
Markdown isn't difficult for us; it is a very real hurdle for those who are left in charge of content management.
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