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The Curse of Markdown


And the content website wasteland

At the richer end we see a decent share of websites, where the tradeoff between effort and richness starts to make sense again. Currently, these websites are outliers created by individuals who care deeply about the reader's experience or by companies willing to invest extra effort. By lowering the barriers to richer content websites, we can unlock the web’s unmatched potential to support the full spectrum of richness, allowing every idea to be expressed in the most fitting way for its depth and complexity.

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