Eliminating cruft one site at a time.
For those who’ve been using the app for a while, you are probably quite familiar with Markdown: a lightweight markup language which aims for maximum readability and “publishability”. We’ve come to like it as much as we dislike the cruftiness that is a wysiwig editor.
We’ve taken it a step further, and introduced our own simpler version of Markdown, loosely based upon the type of syntax found in IM clients. It’s simple, it’s fast, it’s clean, and it just works.
It works like this:
*bold* → bold
_italic_ → italic
-strike- → strike
Can’t be bothered to remember the syntax? We’ve introduced a contextual text-format guide to the app: anywhere you find yourself editing large blocks of text look no further than the sidebar for a quick reference guide.
We really like using this feature, and we think you will too.