Oddbean new post about login | logout interesting, is asciidoc better than markdown for a wiki?
why not wikitext??
it's impossible to work with
I find Wikitext easy enough to work with, and if you find it hard to work with, you can always post trash formatting with good wording and let people like me fix the formatting Wikitext is what Wikipedia and most existing wikis use so the compatibility it would offer is the only valid reason I can see to switch away from Markdown
Because wikitext would enable faster progress in the development of a decentralized wiki and nostr devs are here to divert progress, not enable it
I can get behind this. https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/
No, it's not better than markdown for anything that expects a global user base. It's too English-centric to be better for anything but an English-centric user base. Markdown has no English-centric features, it works equally for people with all the common language backgrounds and keyboard layouts worldwide
what do you mean? why is asciidoc English-centric?
It straight-up uses English instead of arbitrary character coding for certain functionality
I agree with you and that's a negative with Asciidoc, but it uses it just for fringe features that are unnecessary most of the times and also that are completely missing in Markdown, so you can easily ignore them and this is no reason for you to be angry at Asciidoc. I wish Asciidoc was slightly simpler but nothing is perfect. By the way, wikitext is also "English-centric" by that same criteria and you seem to like it.
Wikitext offers compatibility in exchange for the drawback, I keep saying
Wikitext is not parseable. I've posted a bunch of notes here maybe 2 months ago highlighting how absurdly horrible it is. There is no spec but even if there was one it would be unimplementable. There is only one parser: the one that powers Wikipedia, it's a mixmash of cursed PHP that is not portable. I don't know how you can think that is compatible with anything.
It's compatible with Wikipedia and most other wikis on the web. Markdown is cool, but a NIP that just uses nostr to back up and synchronize articles across MediaWiki instances seems like it would be better than an asciidoc wiki platform that isn't cross-compatible
I wouldn't be against that if you want to do it, but it would be a completely different thing than NIP-54.
That's true. Hoping you'll end up doing something based on stl1988's more NIP-54 related suggestion too 🤙 nostr:note124g66ncze9rgqyhln0h8kn9ja7xvxd3ff5kegt2p22cekjq644uqkyy5nl
