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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is:

To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. “Mark that down in your notes, so we don’t forget.”
A discount or sale. “Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?”

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rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And yet you just used it! Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like:

Numbering your items

will automatically format them

into ordered lists

and if you use - it’s an unordered list

same with asterisk
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- Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s all perfectly[^1] intuituve.
  
  [^1]: for certain definitions of perfect.
  
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- Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like
  
  And then other parts of it are just infuriating. Like how if you try to post song lyrics or something, the markdown just mashes every sentence together in one line for some reason. So you have to know the secret code just to make gdamn new lines. I actually pressed enter to go to a new line 5 times in this paragraph but it comes out all jumbled together after posting.
  
  As far as I’m concerned, I shouldn’t need to know some special formatting just for return to work properly.
  
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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Still don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.
  
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  - Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Maybe it’s just some form of problem solving/way to sort your thoughts or options?
    
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edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
30% markdown on three legged jeans? Damn, that’s almost one whole leg for free!

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riot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Any Elder Millennial born after 1979 can’t Markdown, all they know is jot that down, 30% off on jeans, nostalgia for blockbuster, eat hot chip and buy avocado toast

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