Droppiethere's so much to like about #sharkey, yet it also has various things that really irk & irritate me. one of the biggies is its infernal #MFM which if i had my druthers would die screaming in a fire. oh mighty zarquon how i wish i could just disable it forever & use proper #markdown instead
without doubt the biggest failure of MFM, amongst so many, is how preposterously frequently it is broken by commonplace punctuation... not only, but including, #hyphens. eg, i frequently #italicise certain sentences or even paragraphs for emphasis or effect, but even just the humble hyphen breaks MFM, whereas it is fine in Markdown.
eg:
*this sample sentence would have rendered fine in MFM except for my insertion here of a gratuitously-inappropriate hyphen*
here it is again, sans-hyphen:
this sample sentence would have rendered fine in MFM except for my insertion here of a gratuitously inappropriate hyphen
gaaaaah i hate MFM 🤬
without doubt the biggest failure of MFM, amongst so many, is how preposterously frequently it is broken by commonplace punctuation... not only, but including, #hyphens. eg, i frequently #italicise certain sentences or even paragraphs for emphasis or effect, but even just the humble hyphen breaks MFM, whereas it is fine in Markdown.
eg:
*this sample sentence would have rendered fine in MFM except for my insertion here of a gratuitously-inappropriate hyphen*
here it is again, sans-hyphen:
this sample sentence would have rendered fine in MFM except for my insertion here of a gratuitously inappropriate hyphen
gaaaaah i hate MFM 🤬
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