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Feature update: Markdown Toolbar coming to Comment Editor!

Hello, dear DEV community!

I have a quick and exciting update for you today: we have brought the highly requested markdown toolbar to the comment editor.

Many of you who have been following us know that we have been working on improving the editor experience. We first introduced the markdown toolbar in the post editor, and then we simplified how to add a rich-content embed. These are both integral parts of the authoring experience we wanted to get right. We have come a long way and now the toolbar is ready to grace our comment editor. 🎉

I’d like to take the chance to thank my talented and incredibly supportive teammates. I can’t have done this without:

Have you tried it? Play with it and as always, let me know what you think in the comment section below! 😉

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Vlajd

seems to

work well

On

Mobile

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Amy Lin

YES!

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Ben Halpern

😅

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Michael Tharrington

Woot woot! Loving it! 🙌

Also, if anybody else is a regular user of comment templates (which you can create from here), this functionality is tucked away in the kebab (...) menu of the toolbar.

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Nick Taylor

Jack Nicholson nodding yes

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Henrique Vieira

its freaking awesome

  1. because its easy-to-use

  2. Its innovative!


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I'm having fun writing this

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Amy Lin

So glad to see you are having fun ☺️

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Lee

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

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Julia 👩🏻‍💻 GDE

Nice 😏

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Mostafa Said

That's really nice

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Alessandro Pischedda

Nice

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Bobby Iliev

This is very cool!

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Alpha Olomi

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Alpha Olomi

Tap the each button from left to right without typing anything

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