New community platform: markdown feature

[dungeonlords789]

I am sad that I can’t use markdown in community.st.com To be honest, I am interesting in the only one feature: codeblock. I think that ``` or ```bash is very convenient and became industry standard. Even Telegram messenger supports it. Do you plan to add markdown codeblock style? It is weird to click on the … and click to “Code” item in menu… Are we on technical forum? Why we have quick access to Text color but not to codeblock? I feel like new community.st.com comes from outsource designer which really don’t understand content of the forum.

[Andrew Neil]

​@dungeonlords789 

I am sad that I can’t use markdown in community.st.com 

That was also the case with the previous forum

 

It is weird to click on the … and click to “Code” item in menu…

It has already been accepted that this needs changing:

 

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

Hi ​@dungeonlords789 , 

Thanks raising this up. So far there no plans to add it. 

Feedback from other users is also welcome to help assess the feature's importance.

Thank you,
Lina
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[Andrew Neil]

Quite a few people do seem to be assuming that the forum will support it; eg,

 

And note that there is currently no way to post “preformatted” text which is not source code:

This was available in the old forum.

 

However, I do note that the Code Editor here lists ‘Markdown’ as a language option:

 

Let’s try it:

 

In the composition window, it looks like this:

 

Here it is:

```text
1: Yippie (BSSID: 3C:A6:2F:B5:E4:37, Kanal: 11, RSSI: -48 dBm)
2: RAK7268V2_BAD1 (BSSID: AC:1F:09:19:BA:D2, Kanal: 11, RSSI: -50 dBm)
3: Yippie (BSSID: D4:24:DD:4D:F2:2F, Kanal: 11, RSSI: -54 dBm)
4: Yippie (BSSID: DC:39:6F:1F:5C:03, Kanal: 11, RSSI: -76 dBm)
5: linksys (BSSID: 98:FC:11:CE:00:16, Kanal: 9, RSSI: -86 dBm)
6: Yippie (BSSID: D4:24:DD:4D:F4:90, Kanal: 11, RSSI: -86 dBm)
```

 

[Andrew Neil]

Here it is:

 

And now a screenshot of how that appears:

So it does give us monospaced text, but still with the markdown tags.

And line numbers - which may or may not be a good/useful thing.