Support Github Flavored Markdown about saidit HOT 4 OPEN

Instead of GFM, could we implement CommonMark instead?

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It's a so-so issue; the hardest part would probably be finding the relevant code. If you feel like going insane, you could try to have a look yourself.

The main issue once you're actually implementing it is providing a dependency on external code, unless we roll our own syntax highlighting system. And do we do it client-side or server-side?

If server-side, I vote this or something with rust-cpython and Bison. Unless something good already exists.

Client-side will slow down every. single. page. load, since we're not mad enough to rely on XSLT. Which, come to think of it, we could…

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Adding github markdown features to Reddit's snudown markdown flavor doesn't sound too bad. Not sure how the syntax highlighting should be be implemented though. I guess snudown could be replaced with a different markdown engine that had syntax highlighting if it was also very fast.

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I mean, at least fenced code blocks would be nice.

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