renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoNever againlemmy.worldimagemessage-square216fedilinkarrow-up12.04Karrow-down136cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up12.01Karrow-down1imageNever againlemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square216fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareCosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·edit-210 months 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-squarewolo@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months 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