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It would be great if markdown support could be included as a possibly optional feature, it would enable a really simple way to add some basic formatting to jira comments. People who know markdown can then format their comments, and people who dont know markdown probably wouldn't even notice it.
If you dont know what markdown is you can see the help on one of the sites that use it such as stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help
Duplicates/Related: JRA-39919
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JRASERVER-45342 Can't escape brackets inside {code} blocks
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[JRASERVER-21436] Markdown support for JIRA comments
Please reconsider adding markdown support in Jira comments - this would simplify many issues regarding formatting
How is this still not implemented in 2023 for an expensive paid product, when Markdown is now the de facto standard and it is so readily available on free platforms and applications from GitLab to VS Code? This really goes to show just how Atlassian's priorities are backwards. There really is no excuse for not providing this built-in when there are so many FOSS implementations of Markdown parsers and converters out there. For Java, there is CommonMark, Flexmark, MarkdownJ, and others, all three of which are permissively licensed.
It seems Atlassian is not doing the software for developers, who would really appreciate MD support because of the integration with other tools, but rather they are doing it for Project Managers, who don't care about this feature. So I believe we as a developers have to push our project managers to get this feature and then Atlassian will get maybe the feedback from project managers of big customers as well... We just started with getting rid of Atlassian toolstack, Bitbucket is the first one, but I believe Jira should be the next one... Confluence is in my opinion still good software for big companies and there are not really cheaper alternatives for big enterprise companies... Just my personal opinion.
Please reconsider! This affects developers' productivity. How come Jira Cloud has this feature, but Jira Data Center does not???
While this decision might make sense in 2010 I cannot understand that in 2021 we still get no official markdown support in Jira (server). All major Git repository providers, all modern IDEs, all modern Chat tools, etc. support Markdown. Even your own tools like Confluence and Bitbucket support it. It seems to me that Jira is the only development tool that does not support markdown, making it a kind of dinosaur - and you might know what happened to the dinosaurs in the past.
Is Atlassian our of their mids? It's 2020 and Jira doesn't support Markdown, while all other Atlassian tools do support it? This is ridiculous.
+1 for implementing markdown in the comments.
I was actually just now was writing in markdown in the comments in my project, trying to find out why it doesn't work as I discovered to my astonishment that there's no support for it ???