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This is genius. Very clear explanation of what's wrong with rich text editing too. Especially frustrating in Slack. On desktop they support "Mrkdwn" (a bastardisation of Markdown) but there's no way to do custom link text with it at all! The only way is if you switch to their shitty WYSIWYG editor.

In their app I think you can only use WYSIWYG, but it's full of insane flaws, like if you open a code span (backticks) and then close it but don't immediately enter some more text then there is literally no way to escape it into normal text again. You have to delete the whole code span and start again.

If anyone from Slack is reading this, fix your shit!



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