renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNever againlemmy.worldimagemessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up12.04Kcross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
arrow-up12.04KimageNever againlemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square186fedilinkcross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
minus-squareCosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-21 year agoIt shouldn’t be done at all. If you’re updating discord, you’re writing something. That something should be, at the bare minimum, in a README file. If you can’t be bothered with Markdown, just do text. I’ve never encountered this in the wild so I can’t say for certain why a FOSS project would choose to do this. Maybe they are trying to get more people on their server?
minus-squarewololinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoDiscord uses a subset of Markdown for message formatting, so they’ll be writing it regardless
It shouldn’t be done at all. If you’re updating discord, you’re writing something. That something should be, at the bare minimum, in a README file.
If you can’t be bothered with Markdown, just do text.
I’ve never encountered this in the wild so I can’t say for certain why a FOSS project would choose to do this.
Maybe they are trying to get more people on their server?
Discord uses a subset of Markdown for message formatting, so they’ll be writing it regardless