Markdown everywhere
Now, _finally_, we can even use Markdown on our anonymous [Write.as](https://write.as) posts. We'd debated adding this for a while, but hesitated because there are simply **so many** posts on the platform with various formatting, and we'd rather not break things. So we considered: * Adding an option to the editor to enable Markdown in a post. But adding another option or button isn't ideal. * Making **all** existing anonymous posts render as Markdown. With over 30,000 of them, that's a pretty big impact. * Making new posts past a certain date render as Markdown. This has privacy implications for writers ultra-sensitive to it, but also just isn't an elegant solution. * Letting the viewer or link-sharer choose how to see the post. _This is where we're at today_. So now you can add **.md** to your post URLs to view them a different way. If you'd like readers to see them that way too, share the URL with **.md** included at the end. Here are all of our supported extensions, in case you didn't know! | Extension | How it displays | Content type | | --- | --- | --- | | _none_ | Plain, whitespace-respecting text on a nice page | text/html | | .md | Formatted, whitespace-respecting text on a nice page | text/html | | .txt | Plain text | text/plain | | .json | Plain text with special Content-Type | application/json | | .xml | Plain text with special Content-Type | application/xml | | .css | Plain text with special Content-Type | text/css |