Wondering if your typical/average/normie person (millennials and younger) know it or know about it. It’s enabled on reddit and discord?

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where you can use some basic, intuitive ASCII-based formatting (like asterisks for bullets) and it will get cleaned up to a prettier format when you post it.

    They may not know the name of the format or all the available features.

  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    My opinion

    spoiler
    • I don’t know for sure
    • My opinion doesn’t matter at all

    But I think, they know Markdown only, if they are involved in Reddit, Wikipedia, Obsidian/Silverbullet self-hosting or were Skype victims heavy-users.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to cross the text. Not much more for a normie, though.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold

      I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.

      Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.

      • ChexMax@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Yeah, I’m a normie, I’m tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I’m here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don’t even know what gui means. Something user interface? I’m not proud to be this dumb, but I’m pretty sure most “regular” people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.

        • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.

          Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”

          Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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          1 month ago

          OIC. I should have thought about that.
          And here I was considering making this the default way of doing a strikethrough.

          On the other hand, perhaps we should update the screen readers to make that work. Maybe it can be added as a category of stuff that is to be explained separately.

          The least I can do is install a screen reader and know what it does with this.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Probably doesn’t follow the spec very closely.

          It doesn’t require you to put a double space in the end off a line to get to the next. This is similar to a lot of other implementations you see on web pages.
          But it does at least follow through with single level ordered and unordered lists (bullets and numbering) and even automatically adds a bullet when you press Shift+Enter
          Also, single line code and code blocks, work.
          Then there is the usual italics and bold and even a quote block.

          It also converts most of them while you type, instead of you having to wait until sending it, which is better than UIs that don’t even have a preview button. I like Preview buttons.