I wanted to share this really cool thing I learned

MajesticMango

So I occasionally will become obsessed with a song and I’ll share a link to it to my profile. Usually it’ll be a link to Apple Music or to YouTube. Well, last night at like 3am I decided to share a link to a song from YouTube and the video popped up on my profile! It actually plays too!
I thought it was so cool! I feel like I just elevated my bio with this!
People can listen to “your vibe” while reading your bio.
I thought it was something really cool and I just wanted to share this cool thing with you guys

SunsetSnuggles

I've seen this in a handful of profiles. It's cool, and also strange, given that no Markdown works within the profiles. le sigh

~ Sunset Snuggles

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MajesticMango

@SunsetSnuggles may you explain what you mean by that?

SunsetSnuggles

@MajesticMango
This is the Markdown (AKA fancy formatting) that we can use on the message board:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax

It allows for things like bold text, italics, tagging people with @, linked words, and much more.

The profile section, as well as messages here, do not allow Markdown, which is unfortunate.

~ Sunset Snuggles

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MajesticMango

@SunsetSnuggles I’ve always wondered how some of those things were done. I do appreciate you sharing that! ^.^
I can already imagine how some of our bios would look if markdowns were allowed. Creativity would shine ✨

SunsetSnuggles

@MajesticMango
For sure! And yeah, smilies work to a point, but Markdown would be nice. 😁

~ Sunset Snuggles

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MajesticMango

@SunsetSnuggles we’ll get there one day but for now I’m really amazed about being able to play a music video from my bio