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Notable implemantations

@Nickelpro I agree with your edit that the long disorganized list is unnecessary, but I feel like there are still pretty notable software that uses markdown, like Discord, GitHub, ChatGPT, etc. Wouldn't it be better to heavily trim down the list instead of removing it altogether? UnnecessaryDecision (talk) 20:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Similar articles do not feel the need to provide long lists of software that happen to use the underlying technology. We don't have lists of applications that happen to use XML or JSON or HTML, and I don't see why Markdown is any different in that regard. WP:ENC and WP:NOTDB, this is not a dumping ground of "thing uses markdown".

I think a discussion of notable dialects of Markdown might be useful. Ie, not just that Github uses Markdown, but that Github-flavored Markdown is a notable dialect that sees wide use and has inspired useful, common extensions to the original spec. This should not literally be a list with simple references to "this exists", but a prose-based discussion of notable dialects of markdown. Nickelpro (talk) 00:10, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Use for LLMs

I think that it would be worth mentioning that Markdown has recently been increasingly used with LLMs. Products like Google Docs and Apple Notes have added the ability to copy/export as Markdown, perhaps to make it easier to paste into an LLM, and there's a plethora of tools for converting PDF to Markdown. I wonder if there are any good sources for this though. SheepTester (talk) 22:47, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No 1.0 spec

In the text there is a line "No 1.0 spec has since been released, as major issues still remain unsolved." Personally, I found this confusing. Was it meant to be "No" (as in "nothing"), or "No" ans a abbreviated version of "Number"? 2001:1C00:650A:3200:9CA0:1211:B8BA:1C34 (talk) 06:24, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The former (which is clear English), rather than the latter (which would be both nonsense as well as poor grammar) TEDickey (talk) 13:45, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]