bbcode vs. Markdown
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown#Example
We're all used to BBCode but I think Markdown is more intuitive, especially for people who aren't into coding as much
For example to italicize, you simply *use asterisks*
For lists all you have to do is
* use
* asterisks
* like bullets
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The only thing I don't like about Markdown is that when you make numbered lists it always starts from 1 regardless of how you actually numbered it, but that certainly isn't a deal breaker.
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System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not. Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc. Or if person mounted on ass. Ivan find mounting on ass funny.
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Alright, I made the switch to Markdown
Old posts are still parsed as BBCode.
Additionally, if you quote a BBCode post, your post will also be in BBCode to avoid formatting issues. Eventually as old posts stop being quoted, everything will be in Markdown.
There are some CSS things I need to fix, e.g. quotes are huge:
Abraham Lincoln said:
Test
Markdown also doesn't support a lot of the formatting that BBCode did:
- underline
- text alignment
- text colors
- font sizes (you can use h1-h6 headers, but nothing for smaller fonts, and again the CSS for headers is messed up)
- videos and spoilers
I think we can do without underline and text alignment. I can probably hack the rest but wanted everyone to try out Markdown first and make sure we wanted to switch before wasting time on it.
So let's all give it a try for a couple weeks and see what everyone thinks.
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Also note that, unlike strict Markdown, single line breaks are allowed, and raw HTML is disabled
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My main concern is that Markdown won't work well for certain forum-related things like quotes and spoilers.
Lines that start with > are quotes, but it gets weird when trying to attribute that quote to a user and post.
Looks like Stackoverflow uses >! to signify a spoiler, I'll see if I can add that on.
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So what the new thing does becouse i'm too lazy to read everything
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Aleksanderus said:
So what the new thing does becouse i'm too lazy to read everything
It's the text formatting for posts. The bold, italic, etc. toolbar is a lot smaller now, and the text is formatted differently.
Bold in BBCode:
[b]bold[/b]Bold in Markdown:
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capristo said:
Aleksanderus said:
So what the new thing does becouse i'm too lazy to read everythingIt's the text formatting for posts. The bold, italic, etc. toolbar is a lot smaller now, and the text is formatted differently.
Bold in BBCode:
[b]bold[/b]Bold in Markdown:
**bold**Oh OK thanks!
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^ That's a good example of the weirdness of Markdown. Even with the single line breaks enabled, you have to leave 2 line breaks after a quote, otherwise it assumes the text following the quote is part of the quote
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capristo said:
^ That's a good example of the weirdness of Markdown. Even with the single line breaks enabled, you have to leave 2 line breaks after a quote, otherwise it assumes the text following the quote is part of the quote
Hmm... i don't know what to think about it. I mean it looks good but there are less options when writing and sometimes weird things like that^ happens
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I think Markdown is meant to be easier to type manually, rather than typing out HTML tags or mousing over to the format buttons.
Testing line break
Quote
Line break in quoteDouble break in quote
Outside of quote again.
System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not. Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc. Or if person mounted on ass. Ivan find mounting on ass funny.
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While I've never minded manually typing bbcode, I happen to end up doing a lot of stuff manually, soo
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What do you guys think so far? Markdown doesn't seem great for some stuff like quoting and colors