works perfectly

Here's an edge case, try post the following URL:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/best_of_2012_photos/SDO_arch.jpg.CROP.article920-large.jpg

However, if I post the markdown image tag, it works great:

![Space](http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/best_of_2012_photos/SDO_arch.jpg.CROP.article920-large.jpg)

I think we should remove the linkify stuff and only support markdown format. Is that too restrictive?

Yeah, I considered that. I'm just afraid that markdown is too complicated
for the casual user. I can never remember the syntax for links :P
On Jun 30, 2013 9:33 AM, "Mark Theunissen" notifications@github.com wrote:

Here's an edge case, try post the following URL:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/best_of_2012_photos/SDO_arch.jpg.CROP.article920-large.jpg

[image: screen shot 2013-06-30 at 11 31 51 am]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/453297/727546/99438a80-e1a2-11e2-835b-30485b545379.png

However, if I post the markdown image tag, it works great:

[image: screen shot 2013-06-30 at 11 33 02 am]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/453297/727548/c15fdcd0-e1a2-11e2-95fa-35b522201358.png

I think we should remove the linkify stuff and only support markdown
format. Is that too restrictive?

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Yeah. The other issue right now is that two consecutive lines are combined into one:

test line
test line two

becomes:

test line test line two

I think we need to get an implementation of Github Flavored Markdown specifically, which handles linkifying and solves the above issue.

https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown

Another issue is that I can currently use <script> tags in a post and they aren't escaped. Security wise this is fine for people with newer browsers as Content Security Policy headers will prevent the script from executing, but we need to escape these.

Also, I noticed that a line starting with a #hashtag makes a title. Usually
it should be "hash-space title", I think. So showdown is probably not
perfect. And yes, the link shortcut for markdown is indeed ridiculously
difficult to remember.

@Fil Good catch, that should be fixed!