Markdown in chat

[086]

Minecraft has support for italics, bold text, underline, strikethrough - why aren't we using it?
A small chat plugin that allows you to use markdown-like formatting in chat (preferably with a hour count barrier, like /requestrestart is 500+, to avoid abuse)

Being able to emphasize parts of your sentences, tell people NOT to do things, `code` formatting etc would be a cool addition.
Or does this stray too much from the vanilla game?

If this gets the green light, I'd also be willing to create a plugin for this if needed.

[Yukar9]

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand we do have precedent of changing the chat format with the /tell format we use, but that was also a pretty big decision and took a long time to be reached, and the vanilla /tell format is really bad.

I do think it would be nice, but I also kind of like having it be just plain text. A lot of servers have a ton of colors and annoying stuff in chat, and us being entirely plain white text is something that I think uniquely defines us. Though if it's only italics, bold, underline, strikethrough and not colors or that constantly changing text it may not be as annoying.

[086]

I agree colours and obfuscated text (and shit like tags and ranks in front of names) look hideous. This would be only light formatting, maybe colour for links but nothing else.

[ostrich1414]

I agree that having colors constantly changing and shifting around in chat as people type new shit could get pretty distracting and annoying real fast; however, I am cool with minor modifications like Yukar suggested. Otherwise, I am personally happy with our current chat aesthetic.