Dear devRant, Why no markdown?

No need.

This place ain't about sharing pieces of code that might need it, so.. No.

Can't have enough can you??, Now you wanna rant in markdown

Actually, I’d be alright with de-featuring the current devRant a bit.

@Lyniven its not necessarily _just_ for code, but also to convey _tone_. I'd written some texts that would be *so* inappropriate had it not been for markdown to make what I mean clearer.

@bananaerror you can do that without markdown

@iiii please, show me.

@bananaerror you did that already

> You see?

`markdown` is just that hyped. Even if it doesn't get __formatting__, it's still present in our **writing**.

@EpicofGilgamesh I really, really do! It's my default way of communicating technical information.

@iiii there is no emphasis

So that people don't use top level heading for every fucking comment.

List, Bold, Italics and underline should be fine, but still, we don't need it.

@bananaerror how many 𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝘀 do ʸᵒᵘ have in ʸᵒᵘʳ 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘢?

@electrineer what kind of sorcery is this?!
also my banana has many errors, but you didn't have to bring it up publicly like that.

@electrineer whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????? Teach your ways 😳

@vintprox 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗸.

@-red Devrant get rid of the follows

@vintprox 𝖚𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈

Who needs markdown, 𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 Ⓣⓔⓧⓣ 🤷‍♂️

Besides for the "odd" need for sharing code

@highlight say hello

@highlight is my favourite bot here.

@-red 👀 so.... you are a bot.

@highlight

But does hightlight preserve spacing in a browser?

If this is indented it does.

@Demolishun I don't think the browser respects indentation.

@highlight
<< 8 spaces on iOS app

😔

"no compelling use cases"
https://devrant.com/rants/269673/...

and to quote @daceXi:
"A quote from dfox on this:

'I think text formatting is fun for a week and then everyone gets tired of it and it becomes more of a way to spam/be annoying than actually increase the quality of rants. We purposely don't format anything (even links) on the main rant feed because we stress the importance of the quality of the rant over how it's formatted/how much space it takes up. That's another reason why rants containing images get slightly down-weighted - because they stand out more in the feed and hence get more attention, naturally.'"
(I haven't found the original)
https://devrant.com/rants/849050/...