21 sats \ 2 replies \ @cointastical 27 Jul 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
The media is a click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine
- Elon Musk
Yesterday I learned:
You can see the raw markdown for any post or comment on SN by adding /edit to the URL.
For example, if you were like me and wanted to see how someone was able to get this
- Elon Musk
to appear without it being treated as markdown and causing it to produce HTML for a list item, ... then seeing the raw markdown will show the trick ( \- Elon Musk
).reply
lol at the title ... Comments and posts share the same database table, so a lot the code is reused. It's assumed you'll only ever be at the
/edit
path with a post. ie If you aren't url hacking, you'll never see the title.reply