Posts and comments across Reddit are written in markdown.
Reddit's posts and comments are formatted with markdown: emphasis, links, quotes, lists, tables, spoilers, and code blocks all use markdown syntax, either typed directly in markdown mode or via the rich editor that produces it.
With hundreds of millions of users writing markdown-formatted text — often without knowing its name — Reddit is one of the biggest reasons the syntax became second nature across the web.
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Try markdown before you install anything
The free online markdown editor gives you a live side-by-side preview in the browser — a quick way to test the syntax Reddit uses, with nothing to download or sign up for.
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