This week I’m focusing on some small long-standing, quality-of-life issues that have plagued Write.as / WriteFreely for years. Today, it was adding a Markdown preview to the Plain Text editor (issue T519), which was brought up again on the forum after the feature stalled for years.

It took a little poking to get it displaying right, but luckily we already had much of the backend work done with our Markdown API. It seems to work pretty well! I just need to test a few more things, and then it’ll go live on Write.as. After some real-world testing, we’ll bring it over to WriteFreely, too.

Screenshot of the plain text editor, with a modal window in front of the text showing a preview of the rendered Markdown.

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