Why do you not (appear) to support "standard" markdown?

[Zane M. Kolnik]

What gives, markdown has become (sort of) an industry standard, yet you fail to support it.

1. Will this be supported in the future?
2. If yes, when?
3. If not, why?

And for the record the help link for "Text Formatting Notation" is not markdown.

[louisdj]

Information about the formatting can be found here: https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=all 

If you want another standard, you can create a feature request (if it does not already exist).

[Zane M. Kolnik]

Thanks for the response, and providing direction, I'm aware of the "Text Formatting Notation" in the link you provided.

I've since used the search box above, and (for others) there are additional plugins that support markdown. Just use the search.

However that still raises the issue as to _why_ its not a default, and what that bizarre text formatting is.

[Deleted user]

+1 for real markdown. We write docs in markdown and when copying to Jira it simply doesn't work.

What a very, very odd thing to standardize on for Jira.

[Zane M. Kolnik]

What I recently came across that was most bizarre was the inconsistency of markdown support when in the text area.

Use case #1: Add a comment from an issue root URL, i.e., foo.com/issue/1

Use case #2: Add a comment while clicking "comment" when viewing an issue in a modal/dialog

You'll notice that both do not support the same type of markdown. 

[Deleted user]

Saw that too - absolutely baffling.

And... this Markdown appears to be different than Confluence

[Deleted user]

But... WHY?!? What PM thought custom text formatting would be a good idea?

[andremoura_]

ReplyI have imported all my Github issues to Jira and the markdown is a mess now. Any suggestions?

[acutchin_bitpusher_com]

It seems obvious that Atlassian does not WANT to support Markdown. After all, a universally-supported document formatting scheme would make leaving Confluence easier.

[andremoura_]

I have imported all my Github issues to Jira and the markdown is a mess. Any suggestions?

[Zane M. Kolnik]

Considering they do support Markdown, depending on where you add it.

So, I'm not sure if that is a bug, that markdown is supported in some textarea's and not others, or that when you add markdown in supported textareas, then view the contents on a different, i.e., a URL vs. a "modal/dialog" you get no markdown support, or you get some markdown support.

...from what I'm gathering they will not support markdown, and instead are expecting us to use one of the plugins for markdown.