There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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    4 months ago

    Depending where you use it, but often tables are available in markdown.

    markdown table
    x y
     |markdown|table|
     |--|---|
     |x|y|
    

    Fixed…cos you could only see rendered and not code.

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        4 months ago

        There is an option in the settings to use markdown formatting. I haven’t tried it but I guess it at least makes formatting less annoying.

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          4 months ago

          It’s a (small, shitty) subset of markdown. Slack formatting just kind of sucks.

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      Markdown tables are terrible though. Try and put a code block in there. Adoc tables are amazing on the other hand, but much more verbose to write.