Can someone fix the markdown behaviour in ask.fpo?

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I'm clearly not going to do that. Following the meta discussion here in the past 12 months, this seems useless. Author hasn't even released source code.

I'm wondering how Fedora came up with the idea of using a non open source solution that has hundreds of issue, apparently little product support, and that needs software that is not even available in Fedora or CentOS.

@florian Is this the same askbot?

askbot on github

Oh, yes, looks like. I apologize for my wrong statement. Askbot, the software used for ask.fpo is apparently open-source.

It is? Thank you; I sit corrected.

I'm aware of the possibility of using link text. I'm kindly requesting a fix since many users, especially new users paste links that are not rendered correctly.

As for your examples, none except the first and the link text work.

Who knows, I guess any attempt of making any software idots proof (lazy ignorant millennials proof) is a lost battle. The most annoying thing about this site is that most users don't even know how to formulate questions, provide context, error messages, logs, hardware specs. Thank you public education, thank you common core

I am not talking idiot proof. I am talking about making it intuitive. In my opinion, pasting a link is a very common thing that should work out of the box, especially since there is another method of setting text in italics.

The annoying issues you are raising may be a valid concern but they are 1.) a different topic, and 2.) hard to fix (in askbot's code)