[anderspitman]

Sorry, but dropping Markdown support in favor of an input UX that is to this day atrocious gives me little faith in Slack's user stories moving forward. I'm fine if they want to make the default mode more intuitive for a broader audience, but I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode.

EDIT: See comments below for instructions on re-enabling Markdown mode.

[niij]

Preferences --> Advanced --> Format messages with markup.

̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶s̶i̶d̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶r̶k̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶s̶t̶y̶l̶e̶ ̶U̶R̶L̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶:̶ ̶ ̶[̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶t̶e̶!̶]̶(̶h̶t̶t̶p̶s̶:̶/̶/̶e̶x̶a̶m̶p̶l̶e̶.̶c̶o̶m̶)̶ Never mind, it looks like Slack has fixed this!

[ihuman]

They originally got rid of markdown completely when they added the WYSIWYG editor, then added that preference after people complained

[niij]

Yep, I remember that. It was quite the controversy at the time.

[goerz]

I think it does, but only when "Format messages with markup" is on, see https://slack.com/help/articles/202288908-Format-your-messag... and the asterisk at the bottom

[anderspitman]

THANK YOU

Honestly surprised I haven't come across this before.

Also, link formatting seems to be working for me?

[niij]

This was broken when I tried it out during the Markdown-->WYSIWYG switchover a while back. I updated my OP to show they have actually fixed this (go Slack!). I just switched back to Markdown again.

[jakswa]

I still have my pitchfork from all the bugs I encountered when they released the new formatting (still works wonky depending on the workspace for me). That said, I believe this is an option since they changed things:

  I have yet to hear a good argument for not having a little button to enable raw Markdown mode.

That toggle is buried in the preferences/settings under "advanced."

  Format messages with markup
  The text formatting toolbar won’t show in the composer.

[Arubis]

Settings -> Advanced -> Format Messages with Markup may be the first thing worth doing for you when Slack comes back online.

[eurasiantiger]

They have one. Kinda.