What do you guys think so far? Markdown doesn't seem great for some stuff like quoting and colors

Somagu said:
Can't upload new animated avatars. Only takes the first frame.

Should be fixed now. As long as the gif is <= 150x150 it will keep the original animated version

Thanks.. there was a mysterious blank post by no user.

^ 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

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:

**bold**

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.

Also note that, unlike strict Markdown, single line breaks are allowed, and raw HTML is disabled

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.