diaspora/diaspora — Issue #2160: Markdown setting
Author: Pistos
Created: 2011-10-11 14:53:06+00:00
State: open

I'd like to recommend that the Markdown parsing be a user setting, defaulting to off. This way, power users that know what they're doing can go turn it on for all their outgoing text, but new users by default get plain text, including direct translation of newlines into
s (or equivalent). Think of the proportion of power users being surprised that Markdown wasn't applied vs. normal users being surprised that the Markdown parsing has caused unexpected or undesirable formatting of their post (which they cannot change once posted!).

I can code this myself, but before I get started, I wanted to get some discussion happening, in case it isn't a good idea, or if the core devs reject the feature request.