What kind of issues are being caused? Normally Markdown parsing is fairly standard and well understood, if a parser causes issues, couldn’t you swap it out for another? (I use https://github.com/markedjs/marked in my own website and I’ve had no issues, but of course that’s not a guarantee)
The issue is not so much dodgy Markdown parsing as such, but the combination of WYSIWYG-ish editing and Markdown parsing. So you type <asterisk>blah<asterisk> and the next time you press space the asterisks go away and “blah” is italicized. This is a slightly strange experience, and makes any bugs there are more annoying, and some people really really hate it.
(The most frustrating experiences I’ve had with it are actually with the LaTeX integration, which is a lovely thing to have but also occasionally infuriating.)
What kind of issues are being caused? Normally Markdown parsing is fairly standard and well understood, if a parser causes issues, couldn’t you swap it out for another? (I use https://github.com/markedjs/marked in my own website and I’ve had no issues, but of course that’s not a guarantee)
The issue is not so much dodgy Markdown parsing as such, but the combination of WYSIWYG-ish editing and Markdown parsing. So you type <asterisk>blah<asterisk> and the next time you press space the asterisks go away and “blah” is italicized. This is a slightly strange experience, and makes any bugs there are more annoying, and some people really really hate it.
(The most frustrating experiences I’ve had with it are actually with the LaTeX integration, which is a lovely thing to have but also occasionally infuriating.)
See https://github.com/Discordius/Lesswrong2/issues/314 for my summary of the issues.