Text formatting, along with the use of emojis, is a great way to make parts of a message or the message itself stand out. Therefore, many messengers support it. For example WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema and Signal. Unfortunately, the situation in DC is inconsistent. DC-Desktop supports markdown, but unfortunately the other versions do not yet.
I use markdown, among other things, to format the text for self-created link previews.
Arcane Chat is better than Delta Chat?
It’s interesting that Arcane Chat has succeeded in many ways unlike Delta Chat, even though Arcane Chat is run by just one person.
Rendering markdown in the plaintext part of emails is pretty sketch and not standards compliant. Maybe sending rich text from Delta Chat is the underlying request? Not something I personally need but as an opt-in feature that’s fine (I really don’t want to accidentally send a rich text message when I think I’m sending plain).
That’s fair, but the weird thing is that the desktop version does support rendering markdown (it’s optional, on the receiver’s end). The asymmetry is what bugs me.
