Bug 4527 bounty

[alanj]

I'll donate $100 to the Electronic Freedom Foundation in the name of anyone who gets Bug 4527 (crossposting Markdown results in bare syntax on remote site) fixed, payable when the fix shows up in production ;)

I would really like to start using Markdown. Unfortunately most of my friends are not cool enough to use Dreamwidth, so I am dependent on crossposting, so this issue makes Markdown use impossible for me. It should be a very small patch; my guess when I looked at it was under 10 lines, though proper error-handling and comments and such will bump it up some.

Comments

[alierak]

I also glanced at it yesterday, and my first thought was to wonder whether any of the lj-protocol sites we support are also using our Markdown support, in which case we might not want to preformat for those? DW in particular appears in the list, and while I don't see much use for people crossposting Markdown between fellow DW accounts, it might get used by people running their own. Trying to decide if we need a "dw" protocol to do something like this, or just another field in the external sites to indicate Markdown support.

[alierak]

Oh, but purposely crossposting Markdown would probably still have to involve a little bit of translation for domains of @-style user tags.