Markdown support in posts?

[rsn8887]

Is it possible to update the forum software so we get markdown support when posting, so we can write markdown instead of bbcode?

It is already supported by XenForo (proof)

 

[Scarlet]

Is there really anything major you can do in Markdown that you can't with BB to justify the effort to get it working?

 

[rsn8887]

Is there really anything major you can do in Markdown that you can't with BB to justify the effort to get it working?

What effort? It is already supported by XenForo (proof). But for some reason not updated/enabled on gbatemp.

**test**

 

[Scarlet]

What effort? It is already supported by XenForo (proof). But for some reason not updated/enabled on gbatemp.

**test**

Maybe so... But you didn't answer my question lol, why bloat the site with it if it adds nothing that BB can't do?

 

[rsn8887]

Markdown allows easy copy/paste from Github, Reddit, and other modern sites.

The bbcode editor used here parses images as thumbnails immediately, which messes up editing on mobile, at least iOS, and messes up copy/paste. Markdown doesn't have that problem. In fact bbcode is a mess when it comes to copy/paste, because of the wysiwyg editing that hides/obscures most of the formatting commands.

Markdown is standard and used on many platforms. BBcode is slightly different in every forum software it seems.

Markdown is clean, much easier to write than bbcode, and also easier to read in source form.

 

[tj_cool]

This is not viable for us to do at the moment.
Yes, XenForo supports it natively, but only XenForo 2.1 does, while we are still on 1.x
An update to the XenForo 2.x line would mean rewriting all our custom code (tens of thousands of lines of code) from scratch. It would take well over a year to redo all that.