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Comment by wintorez | Hacker News Reader

All I want from Jira is to allow me to use Markdown.

It has a markup language that accomplishes the same thing effectively but has a completely different syntax. This is super annoying when you are bouncing between pull requests in Atlassian Bitbucket and JIRA tickets. I have tried to create a heading with # only to end up with an <ol> at least a hundred times.

I imagine this is because JIRA (2002) predates Markdown (2004), or at least its mainstream popularity when GitHub adopted it.

Is that an excuse? If we have to make a fair comparison, HTML 5 is newer than both: is that a reason why one shouldn't not update the procuct?

As an additional side note, Jira updates are NOT free. You have to pay for a license fee every year to get the updates + support, but the product unfortunately remains kind of the same: super slow and with missing basic features (e.g: Markdown)

It's like the features of markdown without the convenience and usefulness of markdown.

The new rich text editor still confuses me when it comes to newlines and quote blocks, in months since it's been gradually rolled out, I still can't remember if it's Shift+Enter or Enter to end the quote block and what kind of newlines work with quotes, if it's the selected text or a hidden paragraph that quotes are applied to and so on. Just let me edit the raw markdown as before or expose the underlying markup model when editing.

It's definitely not all I want, but that would be huge. Also in Confluence, please.

I've made the switch back to Redmine for my personal projects. By now it has full Markdown support for issues and wiki. Faster than Jira, and easier to use.

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