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Discourse vs GitHub Flavored Markdown

A side-by-side look at Discourse and GitHub Flavored Markdown. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Discourse

Discourse

Social & Communications

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform built for modern communities and organizations. It enables fluid conversations across teams with features like categories, tags, private messages, and real-time notifications.

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GitHub Flavored Markdown

GitHub Flavored Markdown

Development

GitHub Flavored Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to format text on GitHub. It builds upon standard Markdown by adding some additional elements like tables, syntax highlighting, emoji support, and more.

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