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Okay, I have a bunch of things to say/rant on this.

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Maggie

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· Apr 23

Replying to @thunknotes

Expect you've already read it, but dropping the ref for others. @kmelve wrote up a good piece on markdown earlier this year: smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/though

Appreciate your thoughts on this. Interop is obviously one of the strongest arguments for markdown. Have you considered it from the perspective of a non-dev / non-technical user? Who has no idea what markdown is and just wants to create rich, visual docs without strange syntax?

Eg. The “I am an editor of text, and I find it friendly” is from the perspective of someone very comfortable in code and syntax. For many people WYSIWYG interfaces with rich options for formatting and data types (tables, video, etc) w/o any html tags or syntax is friendlier.

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Appreciate newer formats that enable block-based interfaces may not be as clean and simple for devs building them and handling import/export. Good DX obviously important. But it’s hard to argue they don’t lead to better experiences for end-users. Notion, WP Gutenberg, etc.

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