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by repsilat 2981 days ago
> []() are something you'll see people consistently reverse.

Yeah, I've seen this. To help people remember (not ideal, but useful) is the phrase "Robot brackets for human text, human brackets for robot text."

No idea why it helps, you'd expect the reverse to be equally memorable, but it seems to stick with people.
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always_good 2981 days ago
Heh, and then one still accidentally writes !()[] or ()[].

The other nuisance for my users was that the [] text is optional (and relatively worthless from user POV) in ![]() but not []().

I wonder if `!<url>` for images would've been nice alongside `<url>`.

Reddit + the Reddit Enhancement Suite browse plugin have a decent middleground where all urls are autolinked but image urls have additional expand/collapse UI.

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kqr 2981 days ago
> the other nuisance for my users was that the [] text is optional (and relatively worthless from user POV) in ![]() but not []().

Is it not converted to an alt attribute in the rendered HTML?

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