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Ask HN: Are there any messaging apps supporting Markdown?

19 points by 5986043handy ↗ HN
I'd like to easily send formatted code, and bullet points, etc. through a messaging app without having to resort to a heavy app like Slack.

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scrollaway
Discord works great, lighter than slack.
shakna
Riot seems to support a subset of Markdown. You should be able to use any Matrix client you feel like.
ta17711771
And their encryption is audited!

riot-desktop and Riot Android are solid.

RiotX on Android quickly catching up, has very modern UI, but no room management/calls yet.

People seem to love FluffyChat.

Don't waste your time with Fractal.

oehtXRwMkIs
RiotX is really nice. I wish the other clients would catch up in terms of UI/UX which I hear is getting a big update soon.
westurner
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.

aciswhat
I wouldn't consider Discourse/Reddit/Github/etc. to be a messaging app per se, even if some of those have messaging functionality between users...
westurner
I digress on the category definition. Public messaging (without PM or DM features) is still messaging; and often far more useful than trying to forward 1:1 messages in order to bring additional participants onboard.

It's worth noting that GH/BB/GL have all foregone PM features; probably for the better in terms of productivity: messaging @all is likely more productive.

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

saurik
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).