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No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

coldtea wrote: post #56
e40 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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. That's not incompatible with the demographic being vanishingly small and not who Drive is targeting at all. "A lot of us" can still be an insignificant number compared to the Google Drive userbase and target demographic. Now, "more than 10% of Google Drive user…

I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life. I've worked at 10k+ orgs that use it exclusively and every minute of every day.

I'm not sure where you're getting those stats but a source would be nice. I would suspect that their customer base and/or core usage is made up of far more tech company employees via Cloud and Workspaces than it is average Joes backing up documents.

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by DangitBobby »

coldtea wrote: post #58
DangitBobby wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN/Reddit is a bit of a bubble. Most people trust Google just fine with their files.

People who think Markdown users are a demographic major enough to matter in the context of the Google Drive userbase are also in a bit of a bubble...

Yep.

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by coldtea »

KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #61
coldtea wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. That's not incompatible with the demographic being vanishingly small and not who Drive is targeting at all. "A lot of us" can still be an insignificant number compared to the Google Drive userbase and target demographic. Now, "more than 10% of Google Drive user…

I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life. I've worked at 10k+ orgs that use it exclusively and every minute of every day. I'm not sure where you're getting those stats but a source would be nice. I would suspect that their customer base and/or core usage is made up of far more tech company employees via Cloud and Workspaces than it is average Joes backing up documents.

>I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life

That's what I call a bubble.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17613442/google-drive-one...

And that's in 2023.

As for the numbers of organizational paying users in 2023 (corporate users) were 6 million, compared to "over a billion" (in 2023). And of those 6 million organizational users of course only a smaller share are developers. Regular file sharing and G-suite stuff for office workers is the order of the day.

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by [deleted] »

coldtea wrote: post #65
KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life. I've worked at 10k+ orgs that use it exclusively and every minute of every day. I'm not sure where you're getting those stats but a source would be nice. I would suspect that their customer base and/or core usage is made up of far more tech company employees via Cloud and Workspaces than it is average Joes backing up documents.

> I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life That's what I call a bubble. https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17613442/google-drive-one... And that's in 2023. As for the numbers of organizational paying users in 2023 (corporate users) were 6 million, compared to "over a billion" (in 2023). And of those 6 million organizational users of course only a smaller share are developers. Regular…

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Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by bsmth »

I presume you're looking to add a .md file and have editor / docs support, but there is this in case anyone is looking to write a limited subset of markdown in a Google doc:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036?hl=en

It's not great, but you'll find it useful if you have the muscle memory of `* thing` for bullet lists and `## My section` for headings.

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