Markdown Migration

@Sollace
@☬ lincolnbrewsterfan ☬
That’d be far too much a nuclear option - for example, then you would not be able to quote or even write linked replies in the forums or comments.

1. BBCode may as well be called “fake HTML”. Its verbosity makes one wonder why not let the users enter real HTML in the first place.  
2. Way more (or at least more busy) sites use MD these days, so a new user to here has a greater chance of already knowing MD than BBCode.

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1. E  
2. A  
3. C  
4. C

[nix-shell:~/code/philorak]$ ./target/debug/comrak -e philomena -e strikethrough -e superscript test4.md  
<div class="paragraph">Which is italic?  
A. <em>this</em>  
B. <em>this</em>  
C. <em>this</em>  
D. <em><strong>this</strong></em>  
E. <em><ins>this</ins></em>  
Which is bold?  
A. <strong>this</strong>  
B. <span class="spoiler">this</span>  
C. <ins>this</ins>  
D. <em><strong>this</strong></em>  
E. <em><ins>this</ins></em>  
Which is subscript?  
A. <em>this</em>  
B. <ins>this</ins>  
C. <del>this</del>  
D. __this__  
Which is underlined superscript?  
A. `<ins>this</ins>`  
B. <em><ins>this</ins></em>  
C. <sup>*this*</sup>  
D. <em><ins><sup>this</sup></ins></em>  
D. <em>~~this~~</em>  
E. <ins>~~this~~</ins></div>  

• Which is italic?  
  All of them. Some have different formatting.
   
• Which is bold?  
  • A  
  • D (with extra formatting)
     
• Which is subscript?  
  None of these
   
• Which is underlined superscript?  
  • D (with extra italics for some reason)

@Princess Celestia  
What is an “ins” tag?
 
Anyway, the point I wanted to make is it’s not immediately obvious which markup does what from just looking at it.
 
Maybe it’s my experiences with bbcode speaking, but to me I find bbcode easier to understand than the mess of cryptic symbols markdown dumps on you and would rather deal with a slightly more verbose language than an unintelligible one.
 
 
A few other issues I noticed whilst writing this:  

1. With the conversion it seems underline requires 4 underscores otherwise it produces italics  
2. Repeating `=============` renders as =