<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Sep 25, 2020, at 8:16 AM, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:<br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Above is according to Deirdre's comments in person to me. It seems like</span><br><span>a really weird thing for the developers to do, and, oddly, I'm not</span><br><span>seeing outraged comments about this all over the Web, so I'm not sure</span><br><span>the narrative is complete, though I'm sure it accurately describes the</span><br><span>vexing problem Deirdre encountered that ate her afternoon and evening.</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>It ate my MONTH. I have 20+ years of site to migrate, and bits of it are going away. (Not many.)</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that most people just don’t know, and in a lot of cases, those migrations won’t happen and the data will simply disappear. I did email Gruber about it, because they’re using the term Markdown for something that fundamentally isn’t Markdown.</div><div><br></div><div>The other issue is fscking ruby annoyances I’d forgotten about, e.g., (when you have tzinfo 1.2.7 installed): <a href="https://twitter.com/deirdresm/status/1309245113034403841">https://twitter.com/deirdresm/status/1309245113034403841</a></div><div><br></div><div>Which is why I’ve decided to go off the reservation and fork the damn thing to use the current github gems.</div><div><br></div><div>Deirdre</div></body></html>