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Agree completely with the first paragraph and disagree completely with the second paragraph. There are lots of us who use Google drive at work that love md.
There are dozens of you.
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"people who know what Markdown is" overlaps very much with "people who have to use google docs for work but would prefer a consistent editing experience". Basically every dev I know has to use either teams/sharepoint/office or google docs, but most are also more comfortable with using markdown and use it for technical docs. I'd love to have a google docs option of creating a "simple doc", that is backed by markdown a…
Yes, pretty much this. I use Sharepoint and teams because I have to, not because I would think they are good or because I liked them. Sharepoint in particular is horrible, Teams are only slightly better. I want markdown on sharepoint.
Simple: if you make your documents in Markdown, you won't be making them in Google Docs. Stuff made in Google Docs is sticky, increases your dependence on Google, and importantly has a valuable network effect due to their collaboration features. It is in Google's best interest to encourage you to rely on their proprietary services instead of offering you alternatives that allow you to switch provider easily. Addition…
Agree completely with the first paragraph and disagree completely with the second paragraph. There are lots of us who use Google drive at work that love md.
If you're forced to use Drive at work, Google isn't targeting you either. It's targeting the C-suites above you who buy the software, and they don't know what Markdown is. The fact that engineers are lamenting the lack of Markdown in Google Drive shows how much influence they have over those decisions.
Google Drive is a perfect example of today's Google. "Good enough -- just barely". It could be a very fast, efficient file browser with lots of format previews. It's not. Doing basic "file manager" things such as viewing/extracting files from a .zip, editing a plain-text file, or viewing markdown… all those are just "too complicated" for a small indie company like Google. Drive is incredibly powerful, and yet it's ju…
Drive totally chokes if you have tons of tiny files. Lots of things do but Drive is the worst I have seen. I unwisely tried to put a full MAME set on Drive once, and then deleted it. The files never got “deleted” but rather were still in my drive, but not associated with any particular folder, so I could search for them but not see them any other way. Another time, lots of files ended up in Trash, but Drive was unabl…
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It's just not true at all. Knowing/using markdown doesn't make you some Richard Stallmann type.
Maybe the original author implies that you don't need to be a Richard Stallman type anymore, not to trust Google.