[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Arthur Hansen <arthurh3535 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wanderer has a point here.  For the most part, if
> > we're to make this transition, it needs to be the
> > *exact same* content between mailing list and
> > forum, and that include markup (or lack thereof).
> >
> > A usable balance might well be to adopt the
> > simple markup standard:
> > *This is shown as bold in the Web forum.*
> > /This is shown as italic in the Web forum./
> > _This is shown as underlined in the Web forum._
>
> I would rather not force new people to have to use an archaic
> formatting technique just because some people are dead set on 'plain
> text only, dammit'.
>

I was using this formatting technique just this week,
on a forum freshly installed (with the latest version of
the forum's software) earlier this year.  IIRC, it's also
the basic standard in cases like Wikipedia and
TVTropes, which have become quite relevant to current
online norms (at least, to the community of interest to
us).

It does not appear to me that what I propose is in fact
archaic.  Perhaps others can chime in as to whether
this is still modern and widely used?
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