On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 11:28:41 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 09:53:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Remember that the forum software is just a frontend for an
nntp server and
that others view the content via nntp or via the mailing list.
So, it
doesn't make any sense to support features that involve
anything other than
plain text.
The beta forum doesn't look plaintext.
Also markdown is plain text. That is the very point of formats
like markdown and restructured text - to be perfectly readable in
raw ascii form.