There is probably a link somewhere but it would be nice to have the essentials in the boost comment/post forms somewhere so that if I’m trying to remember how to link a user/forum/instance or how to strikethrough text it would be right there.

  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Discord markdown and reddit markdown aren’t the same markdown, which I only know because I try to use ^ to make smaller words but discord won’t do it.

    I wonder ^if ^^lemmy ^^^let’s ^^^^me ^^^^^do ^^^^^^this

    It certainly does not. Maybe that’s just a reddit thing. Or my app doesn’t support it, idk.

    • JohnEdwaEnglish
      6·
      21 hours ago

      Because markdown by itself is more of a set of suggestions than hard rules. Kinda like saying that Americans and Australians both speak English and the basic syntax is the same, and you can go outside with a fag wearing only thongs with both, but…

      Even reddit has two, new and old reddit use completely different parsers and result in different ouputs.

    • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      Flavors of markdown are slightly different, but they share a lot in common. Also Boost has slightly different rendering than the Lemmy website UI, specifically with the spoiler tags

      • Matth78@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        True, I feel boost is really lacking in displaying correctly markdown. Spoilers not being hidden are really annoying.
        For reference this post highlights Lemmy apps on how accurately they display markdown. And this comment use all markdown to test how your current app is rendering them.