It must be a pain to make a text box with the ability to add bold, italic, heading, etc. you know? All the bold text, italics, and headings would need to be saved in a database column to be retrieved later in their correct positions.

I don’t know, I am doing internship learning C# ASP (started 2 months ago), and just got a “Shower Thought” while making an edit post function.

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    If you’re looking for the general word, it’s “markup”. See also Hypertext Markup Language. But yes, Lemmy uses Markdown specifically.

    And yeah, at this point Markdown is just the standard for rich text. I think it’s a pretty solid subset of functionality to use everywhere.