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   Tech Tangents (techtangents@dialup.space)'s status on Monday, 27-Jul-2026 02:09:25 JST Tech Tangents

   @thomasfuchs
   I think it's more of a social problem. I feel Markdown is mostly fine (nesting headers is bad) when you use it as intended, making plain text documents that have some syntax flavor sprinkled in. I like how vim can do some light terminal codes for bold, italic, color, etc with it

   It is a problem is when people are treating github as their home page and trying to use it as a replacement for HTML instead. I agree that if you are using a WSIWYG editor for markdown it is a poor choice