Tumblr's Markdown Link is a Lie!

If you use Markdown to compose your Tumblr posts, you might be forgiven for thinking that the system uses Markdown too—the posting form links to the original syntax guide on Daring Fireball, after all.

It turns out that link is a bit of a fib. Tumblr actually uses PHP Markdown Extra, or something like it…

A quick follow-up on my previous post about footnotes. 1

  1. I didn’t test anything other than footnotes, I’m simply taking the author at their word.