If this forum ever gets an upgrade it should have markdown support instead of bb

[libert19]

I personally feel markdown is much easier to learn and write than bbcode, whenever I write something on this forum it feels different (I know there are direct formatting tools but still).

What do you think?

[OgNasty]

Seems like a request you could bring to the new forum developer's attention in the New forum software section.

[jackg]

I'd support maintaining a few different types of software for cross compatibility and Theymos was trying to market it as a standalone open source piece of forum software so...

Like just have a toggle to switch between bbcode, that one and any others they might like.

[libert19]

Seems like a request you could bring to the new forum developer's attention in the New forum software section.

Not sure how to move it, from 'move topic' link there is no selection for move to 'new forum software'.

Edit: I was stupid.

[Upgrade00]

Not sure how to move it, from 'move topic' link there is no selection for move to 'new forum software'.

There is. Boards and child boards are arranged in the same order they appear on the forum (top to bottom);
Just below Economy -- Reputation, which is the last board in Economy section, is Other, and first on this is the New forum Software child board.
Other -- New forum software

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Epochtalk parser poll ! Come and vote your preference

As someone who occasionally goes on niche topic research binges during which I (on the regular) stumble upon numerous forums who have clearly undergone lackluster migrations (broken post markup, broken links, etc.), I'm gonna go with option 1. Adding any sort of complexity to a migration process (e.g. multiple markup languages, one way conversions on edit, etc.) is bound to break something as well as increase the ongoing cost of maintenance. And for what? A subjectively "easier" markup language (with potentially less features)?

Most people that use the forum either don't use any BBCode, use light styling touches (bold, italic, etc.) or know BBCode in and out and style their threads to the maximum extent the system allows. Those that either don't use BBCode or only do light styling aren't suddenly going to change their behavior and go all out with their posts / topics just cause they can use Markdown. And the users who put in massive amounts of effort into their content (which BTW includes complex signatures that often heavily rely on mountains of parser implementation quirks) will not only (potentially) have their old content mangled but have to learn the ins and outs of a new language as well as any specific implementation tricks of the Markdown parser to achieve anything even close to what they were able to previously.

First, no hybrid please. Meaning the same post should have only one type of formatting applied to it. The current system tries to do bbcode and markdown at the same time and it ends up doing stuff like disappearing comments from code boxes.

Second, bbcode needs to be migrated 1:1. No matter how ugly the code is, run php in the backend if you must, it just needs to work. With all the quirks, like the squished first column in tables. Same styling/colors too. There's too much good old content dependent on all those bbcode quirks - it would be a shame to have it mangled.

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And there should be shortcut buttons for everything - from bold text to tables. We can't expect everyone to remember all codes, be it bbcode or markdown.

Completely agree.

[pooya87]

i like this idea a lot. both learning and writing markdown is so much easier than bbcode, there is lots of resources to google and figure out details if it were needed. most people should already have seen it while using reddit already so it is not something brand new to them.

i don't like the multi option though, going full markdown is better in my opinion.