There is probably a link somewhere but it would be nice to have the essentials in the boost comment/post forms somewhere so that if I’m trying to remember how to link a user/forum/instance or how to strikethrough text it would be right there.

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      Discord markdown and reddit markdown aren’t the same markdown, which I only know because I try to use ^ to make smaller words but discord won’t do it.

      I wonder ^if ^^lemmy ^^^let’s ^^^^me ^^^^^do ^^^^^^this

      It certainly does not. Maybe that’s just a reddit thing. Or my app doesn’t support it, idk.

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        Flavors of markdown are slightly different, but they share a lot in common. Also Boost has slightly different rendering than the Lemmy website UI, specifically with the spoiler tags

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          True, I feel boost is really lacking in displaying correctly markdown. Spoilers not being hidden are really annoying.
          For reference this post highlights Lemmy apps on how accurately they display markdown. And this comment use all markdown to test how your current app is rendering them.

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        Because markdown by itself is more of a set of suggestions than hard rules. Kinda like saying that Americans and Australians both speak English and the basic syntax is the same, and you can go outside with a fag wearing only thongs with both, but…

        Even reddit has two, new and old reddit use completely different parsers and result in different ouputs.

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      Thank you for the link. It has some examples, I guess that’s what I’m asking for, and obviously what is included could be tweaked based on Lemmy differences, exclude things that are already in the quick format bar, etc.

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    I see icons along the bottom of the field, which I can tap for formatting changes. Could you check if you have something similar?

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      Yes, I have that (and actually found out it can scroll to the side and there is a quick link for strikethrough!) but I’d also like stuff like “embedding gifs” and other stuff that is not commonly known.

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        ![alt text or you can leave it blank](image url)

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          Thanks; to be clear, most if not all of this if searchable on the web, it’s more having it easily referenced from within boost’s text entry field somewhere as a “?” Help menu or something so that all users won’t have to do that each time was my suggestion/request from Ruben.

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          Yes but there currently isnt a button to embed images that you arent uploading from your phone. The image button only lets you upload, not enter a remote image URL. Maybe that would be the easiest one to change for @[email protected] ?