Martin Donath @squidfunk.com · Jun 20

I'm astonished some users prefer non-standard (and IMHO noisy) Markdown syntax over plain HTML, with developers going to great lengths coming up with new syntax constructs. In what world is this [↑] better than this [↓]?

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Fernán Agüero · Jun 20

Basically in the number of characters you have to type to get what you want? That was always John Gruber's idea and concept for the original markdown.