Considering I had to teach myself markdown AND HTML to post on this site, I don’t really care what they use, but it would be nice if they stuck to one.
Odd question, but how would one go about getting access to the source of LessWrong, and/or submitting proposed changes? I’ve seen a few feature request, and I’d expect it’s probably within my skill range, or reasonably learnable.
how would one go about getting access to the source of LessWrong,
I just followed my general protocol for such matters. I googled ‘lesswrong source code’ and saw it as a publicly accessible project on github. If you fork the repository and commit changes I believe you can issue a ‘pull request’.
I would also suggest creating a thread in the discussion section describing your newly implemented feature so that people can express their enthusiasm. If people particularly approve I expect it would be easier to get someone to take a look at your implementation.
Thanks but I fixed it… Markdown doesn’t work in the story editor, you have to use HTML, and I know next to nothing about HTML but internet tutorials are awesome.
Umm is there any particular reason why I can’t get the Markdown link format to work?
Because it doesn’t work in the story editor at all %-D Click on “HTML” and use plain HTML.
Thanks I’ll have a go.
It ate my links!
… >_<
It needs a notice: “THIS EDITOR DOES NOT USE MARKDOWN.” Or, better, it needs to have a markdown mode.
Yes!
I’d love it if the editor also used markdown.
Considering I had to teach myself markdown AND HTML to post on this site, I don’t really care what they use, but it would be nice if they stuck to one.
I suspect this is in the class of problems that require someone annoyed by it to sit down and code the fix.
Odd question, but how would one go about getting access to the source of LessWrong, and/or submitting proposed changes? I’ve seen a few feature request, and I’d expect it’s probably within my skill range, or reasonably learnable.
I just followed my general protocol for such matters. I googled ‘lesswrong source code’ and saw it as a publicly accessible project on github. If you fork the repository and commit changes I believe you can issue a ‘pull request’.
I would also suggest creating a thread in the discussion section describing your newly implemented feature so that people can express their enthusiasm. If people particularly approve I expect it would be easier to get someone to take a look at your implementation.
See the last paragraph of About Less Wrong.
Note that you don’t need to directly edit the HTML if all you want to do is add a link; there’s a perfectly good link button for that.
No, you don’t have to :-) I just find the “WYSIWYG” editor even more faff than the HTML editor. YMMV.
You also have double newlines everywhere and a lot of newlines at the end of the post.
I did not create those! Will have a go at fixing them though.
It would be helpful to see your non-working attempted post.
However, here are mistakes I’ve made—leaving a space between the ] and the ( and accidentally typing a curly bracket instead of a square bracket.
Thanks but I fixed it… Markdown doesn’t work in the story editor, you have to use HTML, and I know next to nothing about HTML but internet tutorials are awesome.