Markdown still wins for longform

Writing is not layout

When the tool makes you think about column widths mid-sentence, the tool has lost the plot. Longform wants a linear flow: ideas, then structure, then polish.

Markdown is still the least bad compromise — readable in raw form, friendly to git-style diffs, trivial for an agent to edit without destroying a block tree.

Why CMSs forget this

Block editors sell demos. They photograph well. They also produce content that’s hard to move, hard to diff, and weirdly fragile when you paste from Notion at 11pm.

Forma’s bias

Posts are Markdown-first. Pages can be full HTML when you’re designing a marketing surface. Snippets cover the chrome (site-header, site-footer) so you’re not copy-pasting nav markup like it’s 2007.

A sane workflow

Draft in Markdown

Ship with a featured image and SEO fields filled

Let the archive + RSS do discovery work

Keep the homepage fancy; keep the blog honest

If your blogging tool needs a training course, it’s not a blogging tool — it’s a career.