This is a good call. I know it's been suggested multiple times over the years; I wonder what the rationale was for rejecting the format, or at least having the option to render a file when it's loaded. (Maybe a "display as HTML" button or the like would be required before it would be rendered.)

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chrismorgan 20 hours ago | parent [-]

“Markdown” is a family of writing formats. There is no one “Markdown”. It’s completely unsuitable for direct inclusion in the web platform.

Related reading: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7763.html text/markdown registration.

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Ringz 20 hours ago | parent [-]

The overlap between these Markdown formats is actually larger than with many other formats. Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser.

	▲	chrismorgan 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Possibly even larger than HTML’s overlap back when MS Explorer was the dominant browser. No way. You were never left in doubt about whether a normal HTML tag would work, or whether tables were available or would become a jumbled illegible mess, or whether a line break in the source would become a space or a hard break. And that’s just the first three things that occur to me.