Voting to deactivate MD parsing inside the WYSIWYG editor, provided a MD-only editor still exists. A tool should do one thing well.
I’ll copy my comment from the other thread in here, though, since it’s relevant: Don’t hide the alternate editor in the user profile. Make it selectable when commenting, and remember the selection. Quite aside from making it immediately obvious that there’s more than one way to post, it means you can measure users’ preferences by seeing what they use to post with, with much less selection bias (owing to much less inconvenience for the non-default option).
Voting to deactivate MD parsing inside the WYSIWYG editor, provided a MD-only editor still exists. A tool should do one thing well.
I’ll copy my comment from the other thread in here, though, since it’s relevant: Don’t hide the alternate editor in the user profile. Make it selectable when commenting, and remember the selection. Quite aside from making it immediately obvious that there’s more than one way to post, it means you can measure users’ preferences by seeing what they use to post with, with much less selection bias (owing to much less inconvenience for the non-default option).