[happyopossum]

Your plain text editor is the markdown reader. That’s the point.

[nullhole]

It really would be nice to have a convenient renderer for it though. It's genuinely surprising something like firefox doesn't have a markdown reader builtin already.

[matijsvzuijlen]

I wrote one for my own use (on Linux): https://github.com/mvz/mdv

[jdechko]

If you’re on a Mac, I recommend qlmarkdown. It’s a customizable quick look renderer for markdown (md) files.

https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown

[VerifiedReports]

Then that's no point at all. You're not seeing the formatting that the embedded formatting characters call for, so why have them in there?

[nacozarina]

and it looks like poo, that’s the other point

[VerifiedReports]

Exactly. You can always count on someone to come back with, "That's why it's so great! You just read it in a plain-text editor!"

Why does anyone have to point out how dumb it is to litter your "plain text" file with formatting characters that are never respected?