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Ask HN: Are there any messaging apps supporting Markdown?

by 5986043handy on 7/3/20, 9:05 PM with 12 comments

• by westurner on 7/3/20, 11:49 PM

  Mattermost supports CommonMark Markdown: https://docs.mattermost.com/help/messaging/formatting-text.h...

  Zulip supports ~CommonMark Markdown: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/subsystems/markdown.h...

  Reddit supports Markdown. https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown

  Discourse now supports CommonMark Markdown.

  GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and Gogs/Gitea support Markdown.

• by walterbell on 7/3/20, 10:20 PM

  Wire supports a subset of markdown syntax, https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002676029-Use-...

  You can register for a free personal account with only an email, no requirement for phone number or contacts upload.

• by shakna on 7/3/20, 11:46 PM

  Riot seems to support a subset of Markdown. You should be able to use any Matrix client you feel like.

• by winrid on 7/4/20, 12:25 AM

  To respond to OP: https://volt-app.com/

  Related discussion: I've built FastComments to be "realtime" and support markdown. Been thinking of reusing the infrastructure to launch a little chat app, but not sure what the killer feature would be aside from being lightweight...

  Edited to add Volt link.

• by Jugurtha on 7/4/20, 8:18 AM

  WhatsApp supports italic, bold, strikethrough, and monospace using backticks you could use for source code, though no syntax highlighting[1].

  [1]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-format-your-me...

• by wooptoo on 7/3/20, 11:50 PM

  Telegram has some support. I believe it's an incomplete implementation.

• by saurik on 7/4/20, 2:31 AM

  WhatsApp isn't "markdown", but supports code blocks using triple backquote (and uses underscore for italics and star for bold, which I think is a lot better than markdown anyway).

• by scrollaway on 7/3/20, 11:10 PM

  Discord works great, lighter than slack.