Most app clients don’t fully support formatting yet. I’m on Boost and neither spoilers nor superscript work.
I don’t know the numbers on each app vs web clients, but I suspect apps are a significant portion. Ignoring their limitations is ignoring a good portion of your users.
Mlem dev here. It shows strikethrough, but not superscript. Lemmy has got a unique dialect of Markdown - in the current version we’re using an open-source Github-dialect parser, which is close to Lemmy’s dialect but not perfect. In the next update we’ve written a custom parser that handles all of Lemmy’s Markdown elements, including superscript and spoilers.
This is what I see:
Maybe the summary tags aren’t working on your app? But I guess the “Thanks to…” section could be moved to the footer, too.
Most app clients don’t fully support formatting yet. I’m on Boost and neither spoilers nor superscript work.
I don’t know the numbers on each app vs web clients, but I suspect apps are a significant portion. Ignoring their limitations is ignoring a good portion of your users.
It is particularly obnoxious on Sync for Lemmy…
edit:fixing image link
It looks pretty well considered in Voyager.
It seems to be you should contact the app’s developer since the problem is with the app.
Mlem shows the full thing with giant header text.![](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/8f13b167-5af9-4236-9ab1-875577b7de71.png)
Does mlem show other formatting like
strikethroughor superscript ?Mlem dev here. It shows strikethrough, but not superscript. Lemmy has got a unique dialect of Markdown - in the current version we’re using an open-source Github-dialect parser, which is close to Lemmy’s dialect but not perfect. In the next update we’ve written a custom parser that handles all of Lemmy’s Markdown elements, including superscript and spoilers.