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View submission: Moderators: Search page updates + subreddit description changes
Please remove any markdown you have in the description field.
If your metadata framework can't handle rich text the problem is with the framework, not the text.
Instead of killing off the feature have you considered only sending the text content of the rendered HTML to OpenGraph?
Comment by Walter_Bishop_PhD at 24/06/2015 at 23:53 UTC
7 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I can't really think of a place where people use markup in the description field, unless you use it for the message people see when a subreddit is private. Perhaps they could leave autolinking on in the rendered description fields?
Comment by ldpreload at 25/06/2015 at 00:30 UTC
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Honestly, I think it's better design to make it clear that the data is going to be sent in a plain-text format to the outside world, otherwise people might put semantically-meaningful data in the markup and be surprised when it isn't conveyed faithfully. Be conservative in what you send etc. So deprecating Markdown seems like the right choice, especially if it's not used very much (which seems to be the case).