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No, this migration is not going to touch chat. It's only going to touch posts (questions and answers) across the network. Personally I think we should keep things consistent (and that includes chat and other places) but it's an entirely different can of worms.

Ham Vocke
– Ham Vocke StaffMod

2020-06-01 11:58:35 +00:00
Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 11:58
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@HamVocke - so it doesn't affect comments either?

Mithical
– Mithical

2020-06-01 11:59:18 +00:00
Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 11:59
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Correct! Comments won't be affected.

Ham Vocke
– Ham Vocke StaffMod

2020-06-01 12:09:58 +00:00
Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 12:09
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Adding my voice here - now we're running 3 different, distinct dialects of markdown (Main, comments and chat) , and it would be really nice to have subsets of one running everywhere.

Journeyman Geek
– Journeyman Geek Mod

2020-06-01 12:30:11 +00:00
Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 12:30
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@Ham talking about can of worms, what will happen to Area 51? Will it be affected?

user152859
– user152859

2020-06-01 12:36:06 +00:00
Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 12:36
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@ShadowKeepsSocialDistance I don't know of anywhere on Area 51 that even use post Markdown. All the boxes there would use the watered-down comments Markdown system. The Area 51 meta site already runs off the same code as any other meta site.

animuson
– animuson StaffMod

2020-06-01 12:56:29 +00:00
Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 12:56

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