You can try it by heading over to your account settings and enabling Prefer Markdown input where available.

It’s also available for blog posts, and I’ll be rolling it out to more place (like game comments) soon.

If you’ve got any where you’d specifically like to see markdown support say so here.

Also, if you have any requests for featured on the markdown editor please tell me as well.

Enjoy

Definitely an option for pages, too - means I can just use the readme.md from my git repo as the starting point for a project page, without having to go through fiddling all the styling and markup.

FYI - minor bug / UX annoyance - if you click the B or I buttons a second time, it just spams more asterisks, rather than removing the style

i would love this for new project descriptions! it would be especially useful for when I'm uploading a Ludum Dare entry, which also uses markdown on their site, so that i could simply copy-paste the description text between both sites.

***``` lovely!

EDIT: Nevermind.

Awesome feature. With this implemented, a button to preview the result would be nice. Also, an option to convert rich text posts to markdown would be useful (assuming it doesn't take effect until applied, to provide an opportunity to preview the result first). Currently, it looks like old rich text posts are locked into that editing method.