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Comment by VerifiedReports

1 day ago

Hahaha, I know, right? Someone might seriously float this argument.

Gee, here's a Markdown file on my computer that I'd like to read (formatted as intended). Since I don't have a lightweight reader for Markdown, let me just...

1. Open it up in a text editor

2. Launch a browser

3. Navigate to some page that allows Markdown comments.

4. Log in to comment.

5. Find something to comment on.

6. Create and paste into a comment.

7. Post the comment.

8. Read.

SO EASY!

Seems like a lot of steps when you could just double click the file.

If you're on Windows it'll open in notepad.exe which is a markdown viewer.

On most flavors of Linux it'll open in a markdown viewer.

That leaves Apple and Android which I don't think have built in markdown viewers. But you can just install an app.