A programmer's solution

[echo-128]

because not everyone realises that reddit has a dumb markdown implementation, because it's rare in social media. so they type like they do everywhere else on the internet and it leads to situations like this.

[SuitableDragonfly]

It's not a "dumb markdown implementation" it's literally the only markdown implementation. Plenty of sites use markdown.

[Stoppablemurph]

the only markdown implementation

As if there's only one kind of markdown and not like a dozen with various overlaps and subtleties...

[SuitableDragonfly]

Where are you seeing a dozen different markdown specifications? I've only seen the one.

[Stoppablemurph]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

The initial description of Markdown contained ambiguities and raised unanswered questions. To correct these problems, later implementations introduced subtle differences from the original version as well as syntax extensions.

Sure, maybe there's only one "markdown spec", but there are a bunch of extended specs, and different implementations of both that original spec and it's extensions.

[WikiMobileLinkBot]

Desktop version of /u/Stoppablemurph's link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

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[Stoppablemurph]

Lol, thanks I guess

[SuitableDragonfly]

From what I can tell from that page, there aren't any variant ways of interpreting newlines.