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Nice feature request! I am not the one who downvoted but I certainly have some concerns:
Complexity
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AsciiDoc is unnecessarily complicated. From what I have seen, Codidact runs just fine on Markdown. Even much larger platform Stack Overflow doesn't seem in that much need of it, despite AsciiDoc having more features.
Worth
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Considering the votes on this feature request, it seems that not a lot of users are interested. It seems like something that requires high effort* but gives low value in return (considering not a lot of users will use this option).
*(I'm not sure if this is just a two-minute implementation - but I think it will take time - to first add the option - then make the documentation for it in the Help Center - that too for all communities - and this isn't even taking into account the customizations some communities may have asked for)
So a question that may be considered is- Is it worth the limited developer time?
Editing
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You mentioned that
> I would expect a per-user default configuration and a possible toggle at the bottom of posts.
While it is nice to have a per-user default configuration - think about it. This will divide all the posts into Markdown ones and AsciiDoc ones.
This poses a problem for editing.
If someone fluent with Markdown (which I think most active users are by now) wants to help and make the site better, there will be a "formatting-language" barrier that they will have to overcome if they come across a poorly written AsciiDoc post. Vice-versa for when someone fluent with AsciiDoc wants to improve a poorly written Markdown post. While I guess this barrier will not be so big, but it certainly poses an inconvenience.
~~### What do you think?~~

I have some concerns:
Complexity
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AsciiDoc is unnecessarily complicated. From what I have seen, Codidact runs just fine on Markdown. Even much larger platform Stack Overflow doesn't seem in that much need of it, despite AsciiDoc having more features.
Worth
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Considering the votes on this feature request, it seems that not a lot of users are interested. It seems like something that requires high effort* but gives low value in return (considering not a lot of users will use this option).
*(I'm not sure if this is just a two-minute implementation - but I think it will take time - to first add the option - then make the documentation for it in the Help Center - that too for all communities - and this isn't even taking into account the customizations some communities may have asked for)
So a question that may be considered is- Is it worth the limited developer time?
Editing
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You mentioned that
> I would expect a per-user default configuration and a possible toggle at the bottom of posts.
While it is nice to have a per-user default configuration - think about it. This will divide all the posts into Markdown ones and AsciiDoc ones.
This poses a problem for editing.
If someone fluent with Markdown (which I think most active users are by now) wants to help and make the site better, there will be a "formatting-language" barrier that they will have to overcome if they come across a poorly written AsciiDoc post. Vice-versa for when someone fluent with AsciiDoc wants to improve a poorly written Markdown post. While I guess this barrier will not be so big, but it certainly poses an inconvenience.

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