Wondering if your typical/average/normie person (millennials and younger) know it or know about it. It’s enabled on reddit and discord?
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I think less than 50% of people with access to technology are tech literate enough to know what markdown is. I don’t think age really applies here so much as interest in technology.
Just because I drive a car doesn’t mean I know or care about how it works. It’s just a tool.
Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where their basic plain-text formatting (like asterisks for bullets) will get cleaned up to a prettier format when they post it.
They may not know the name of the format or all the available features.
And quartz, of course.
Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is:
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To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. “Mark that down in your notes, so we don’t forget.”
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A discount or sale. “Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?”
30% markdown on three legged jeans? Damn, that’s almost one whole leg for free!
Any Elder Millennial born after 1979 can’t Markdown, all they know is jot that down, 30% off on jeans, nostalgia for blockbuster, eat hot chip and buy avocado toast
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Nope. Most tech people don’t know what markdown is.
No, they use the WYSIWYG editor it has.
I am a big fan of markdown though.
Did you know you can nest these?
That's right, someone could make a choose your own adventure game this way
The issue for a long time was that there is no markdown standard, so everyone had their own version of it.
CommonMark is gaining ground, so hopefully markdown will be the same everywhere soon
Nope, no chance.
No
No, the average person struggles with WYSIWYG editors
Yes, no, maybe.
I don’t know.
Can you repeat the question?I hate it when someone dumps their log file without using a code block. Even seen some Arch Linux users do it, which is, unsurprising really.
Another millenial here. I’ve known about markdown forever, but I also LIVED online as a teenager. I suspect most people I know would think similarly to the other commenter if asked.
I would guess they know a bit about lists using “-“ and a few people might know about using asterisk to bold stuff, but other than that probably not.
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