Cool, I created a new Meta post for this. If enough people agree then I think removing the markdown parsing is the way to go for now.
I am not a huge fan of permanently displaying formatting options at the top, because I do think it takes up a lot of unnecessary real estate and makes formatting comments feel a lot more intimidating than it has to. (Though it’s definitely a much harder UI challenge to then still allow people to format things the way they want). I would be happy to discuss that more though, but if we do, let’s continue that in the relevant meta-thread.
Cool, I created a new Meta post for this. If enough people agree then I think removing the markdown parsing is the way to go for now.
I am not a huge fan of permanently displaying formatting options at the top, because I do think it takes up a lot of unnecessary real estate and makes formatting comments feel a lot more intimidating than it has to. (Though it’s definitely a much harder UI challenge to then still allow people to format things the way they want). I would be happy to discuss that more though, but if we do, let’s continue that in the relevant meta-thread.