- Mattermost is an open source alternative to Slack that shows you how Slack might look, feel and work with features that Slack is missing.
- Slack is instant messaging application. Slack has one to one and team collaboration using channels. Markdown in slack are not supported but can be used in messages and posts of slack Users of slack supports plain text messages.
Message Text Formatting. To format your message's text with styling (such as bold, italic, block quotes, code blocks and lists) you'll simply need to enter these in the same way you would do on Slack. For example entering this: Will look like this in Slack: You can read more on formatting the text on messages on Slack's formatting help guide here.
Katie Notopoulos, complaining at BuzzFeed about the way Slack now renders text wrapped in tildes (“~like this~”) as strikethrough:
Slack Markdown Support
Ok, so this is almost certainly because of Markdown, a tool thatturns text into HTML. In Markdown, putting tildes around a wordmakes it appear as strikethrough text. Using Markdown makes somesense, I ~guess~, since many of Slack’s clients use it for codingand other technical purposes.
But what about the rest of us? Those of us who don’t know shitabout Markdown or coding or who John Gruber is or ~whatever~ man?What about the people who NEED our tildes back so we can actuallycommunicate with each other in the language that is ~native~ toonline discussion???? WHAT ABOUT US???????
There is no strikethrough syntax in Markdown. Go ahead and look at the official syntax. Tildes have no meaning, and are passed through as-is by any good Markdown processor. If Slack didn’t have their heads up their asses and actually used Markdown-style formatting syntax, there’d be no problem. (And we’d get italics instead of bold when we did
*this*
, as we should.)Slack Markdown Format Link
Tables In Slack
Adding support for a strikethrough syntax is a longstanding request for Markdown, but I omitted it by design. For one thing, there is no good punctuation to represent strikethrough. Tildes don’t look like strikethrough at all — tildes are squiggly, but a strike is a straight line. The most-requested syntax — wrapping the to-be-struck-through text in hyphens, like
-this-
— is visually hard to distinguish from dashes used to indicate a pause or parenthetical clause. To me, there is no punctuation that better represents struck-through text than the raw HTML <del>
tag. The primary goal of Markdown is to remain readable as plain text.For another thing, strikethrough isn’t used frequently enough to justify a shortcut. If Markdown provided its own syntax for all of the various HTML tags that people think that they want, it would be a minefield of special cases that you’d need to be aware of at all times while writing. A big part of Markdown’s (still growing) success is that I kept the syntax relatively small.
Update: Tildes-for-strikethrough comes from the GitHub-Flavored Markdown (which is a Markdown variant I like a lot — I just don’t think the syntax for a programmer-oriented variant is applicable to a general-purpose audience like Slack’s). BuzzFeed has updated Notopoulos’s article accordingly.
★ Thursday, 5 November 2015 Is youtube down.