[ilyt]

Alternative would need to fill similar function, while it can't even embed an image or put a table.

[carapace]

Hacker News can't even embed an image or put a table, yet here you are?

Anyway...

         _________________
        /                /|
       /                / |
      /      Table     /  |
     /                /   |
    /________________/  /||
    |   __________   | / ||
    |  | | ||     |  | | ||
    |  | | ||     |  | | ||
    |  | |_|/     |  | |_|/
    |  | |        |  | | 
    |__|/         |__|/

[MrVandemar]

Ceci n'est pas une table.

[carapace]

Heart emoji.

[ilyt]

hackernews "markup" is also garbage, we don't come here for that

[seba_dos1]

Same as people who use Gemini.

[stonogo]

That's not what alternative means. A passenger train is an alternative to a bus, but you can't drive a train on a freeway. "Alternative" in no way implies "feature parity". Getting addicted to meth and dying in a shootout with the police is an alternative to completing a medical degree and retiring to the Poconos, but they do not fill similar functions.

[ilyt]

I mean if you want to use that as an example it would be like taking a bus or walking 50km to the next town...

[saghm]

To be fair, I think it's pretty reasonable to say that walking 50 km isn't competition to taking a bus, but just an alternative. To be competition, it would have to be a _good_ alternative...