User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-1038387-20160915032826/@comment-26402117-20160915212429

I've found from regularly using Reddit that Markdown and wikitext are not incredibly different for basic text formatting. In general, everything except links, bold and italic text is the same. That slight adjustment would make mobile formatting easier with using a different more vanilla Markdown.