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Discussion on: Would you like a MarkDown side preview feature?

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Michael Tharrington

I agree with the others that the WYSIWYG approach seems to make the most sense here!

That said, it is pretty cool to see a side-by-side view and I can imagine a different use for it that may be waaaaaay waaaay off in the future, but is still fun to think about...

What if we had article versioning and you could look at an older draft side by side with a newer draft version that would highlight the changes? This would be really cool for co-writing with another person! Maybe if you'd like, you could invite someone to edit your article grammatically or edit the code in your article? This way, you could review the changes that a peer makes and learn something from it. I feel like that would definitely be a valuable feature and goes well with our open source, cooperative ethos!

There is some cool hidden potential here. Thanks for the food for thought! 🤔