Strikethrough

jake

Is there any (even hacky) way to get strikethrough text working in The Archive? I'm migrating my life from nvALT and rely on strikethrough considerably. Thx.

ctietze

Unfortunately, no -- the 'normal' Markdown syntax didn't include strikethrough at all, and our implementation also doesn't support it.

However, the community consensus over the past decade or so seems to converge on using ~...~, made popular by GitHub: https://github.github.com/gfm/#strikethrough-extension-

I was ~wrong~ right!

So I'd advise to use that for future compatibility. While The Archive doesn't render this as strikethrough text now, it likely will in the future!