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Ernie Smith@shortformernie · Editor, Tedium; journalist
Hey, why the nonstandardized implementation of Markdown? The bold and italics in particular is not how that tends to be used in most apps.
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Matteo Rattotti@matteorattotti · Shiny Frog
@shortformernie Hey! The standard Markdown has many limitations and in particular bold and italic are non-intuitive/mnemonic, we tried to come up with a variant that's more user friendly and that allows us to implement new features with ease. However, we'll listen to our users feedback and we'll try to take the best direction :)
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Ernie Smith@shortformernie · Editor, Tedium; journalist
@matteorattotti For me, it's a literal "I won't use it" thing. I worry it would introduce a compatibility issue with the other Markdown files I use and messes with the muscle memory. I wouldn't be able to copy and paste my words from this into Ghost, for example. New ideas are welcome to the Markdown spec (the approach certainly isn't terrible), but I think… See more
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Seb Jachec@iamsebj · Studying, coding, designing, gaming.
@matteorattotti @shortformernie Seems like this just makes notes partially incompatible if you export them elsewhere. Having to spend time going through and changing bold and italics to the syntax that's accepted on most sites and in most apps isn't fun. Almost goes against the "no lock-in" data storage philosophy too.
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Matteo Rattotti@matteorattotti · Shiny Frog
@iamsebj @shortformernie We have a markdown importer/exporter, so you don't need to do this by hand. I get that's not ideal and we might change direction at some point, but as now we really want to try this approach. We don't want to exclude the Markdown users, but we want to improve everyone else experience. The public beta is made to highlight this kind… See more
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Andrew Wooldridge@triptych · WebDev
@matteorattotti @shortformernie folks are learning markdown so they can use it across apps. if you are going to offer a non-standard markdown, please at least have an option for folks to use the standard instead. As they've already gotten that habit :)
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Ernie Smith@shortformernie · Editor, Tedium; journalist
@triptych @matteorattotti I think that nails my concern here. I think if you offer users the option—so it can be turned on or ignored at will—you'll make everyone happier. But take your time and see how usage shakes out. Cheers!
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Brandon Jones@mbjones
@shortformernie @triptych @matteorattotti I definitely agree with this. Non-standard markdown would be a serious mood killer and a strong reason to stick with Ulysses.
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