• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It shouldn’t be done at all. If you’re updating discord, you’re writing something. That something should be, at the bare minimum, in a README file.

    If you can’t be bothered with Markdown, just do text.

    I’ve never encountered this in the wild so I can’t say for certain why a FOSS project would choose to do this.

    Maybe they are trying to get more people on their server?

    • wolo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      Discord uses a subset of Markdown for message formatting, so they’ll be writing it regardless