Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead

I never use markdown. And any alternative with the name emacs in it runs into my prejudice wall. Why? I managed a bunch of Sun workstations with next to no memory. Emacs, regardless of its virtues meant Emacs Makes A Computer Slow.

To this day, my two forums of interest, including HN, use some obscure markup or "punch this button to bold your selection" or the Fuggedaboutit language (plain text).

I would work much better composing in an editor, wysiwyg is fine, with back and forth to the abominable text box.

I hate text boxes. I often lose the entire contents with a network hiccup (ghost text does not work on mobile).

I am not some spoiled kid. My first computer input was rocker switches on an IMSAI 8080.

Computers got smarts to make life easier or harder.

People continue to choose (code) poorly.

theres a picture of a superhero trying to choose between [text](link) or [link](text) like it's going to blow up the planet.

i dont think its that hard

if you got it wrong, fix it. It's also much easier to just have an LLM write it now days. It's basically how they emit most of their text now.