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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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
They did not nest properly on boost. But I guess that’s not surprising, we only just recently got them at all
It works fine on the lemmy-ui, I’d say you should raise an issue.
Didn’t work on Jerboa either, when I opened the top level spoiler it also opened the nested one.
Nope, no chance.
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
No, the average person struggles with WYSIWYG editors
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.
No
Maybe?
Nah
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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.
I would even say less than 5%
Lol, yeah. I’m probably being too optimistic.
Well, 5% is less than 50%
Are you telling me you can’t identify some of the common symptoms of a failing alternator!? Pshhhh…
:P
You’re a towel.
…could you please elaborate?
Dumb joke that’s from South Park. There’s a towel, and any time someone calls him a towel, he retorts with, “you’re a towel”.
I need to watch more South park. 😂
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.
Yes, no, maybe.
I don’t know.
Can you repeat the question?No
Nope. Most tech people don’t know what markdown is.
Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to
crossthe text. Not much more for a normie, though.I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold
I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.
Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.
Yeah, I’m a normie, I’m tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I’m here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don’t even know what gui means. Something user interface? I’m not proud to be this dumb, but I’m pretty sure most “regular” people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.
Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.
Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”
Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”
You mean ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶? Yeah. It can be done without markdown.
Those are usually broken on screen readers.
OIC. I should have thought about that.
And here I was considering making this the default way of doing a strikethrough.On the other hand, perhaps we should update the screen readers to make that work. Maybe it can be added as a category of stuff that is to be explained separately.
The least I can do is install a screen reader and know what it does with this.
Google Translate’s “Listen” option seems to work well with it though.
Yeah, that exactly. Not a native speaker, huh
And quartz, of course.
Of course.
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.
I only know some characters
like this oneLike this one
Does anyone know the best markdown-learning platform?
I don’t know about “best,” as that probably varies per individual, but I always recommend reading at:
https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/
and if you want to experiment in private, there are lots of live editors; locally I recommend Obsidian. If you don’t want to install anything, there are also in-browser options such as:
https://markdownlivepreview.com/
(I have not used this and so cannot comment on its quality, but at a glance it looks good)
