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Can you clarify what you meant with "experimenting with markdown"? (since I see you're not a new user)


Markdown is a common formatting system for github, reddit, and a few other sites. I like how it works so have been looking up more complex how to's and messed around with comments on some sites to see which may support markdown formatting. One thing it lets you do is hyperlink sites where [This would be the link itself](and the actual website goes here) like [Google](www.google.com). That doesn't work here, but I gave it a shot as I've been linking that way on Reddit all week when needed. Markdown is neat, but also a buzzword for simple text formatting.


Thanks, I didn't need to know what Markdown is, but thanks :)

I asked you because it seemed strange that a user with 120 points and 9 months of usage didn't know yet that this site doesn't support Markdown or anything close, and I wondered if they added some support lately without me noticing.

The only markup/formatting supported by Hacker News is what's described at https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc .




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