When comparing Markdown vs Contentflow, the Slant community recommends Markdown for most people. In the question“What is the best Node.js-based CMS?” Markdown is ranked 10th while Contentflow is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Markdown is:
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
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Pros
Pro Human-readable
Designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form.
Pro Widely used
Markdown is quickly becoming the writing standard for academics, scientists, writers, and many more. Websites like GitHub and reddit use Markdown to style their comments.
Pro De facto standard
Markdown is ubiquitous. It's supported by nearly everything. The markup available in the common subset of all the many dialects isn't that rich, but it's usually enough to get the job done.
Pro Multi-directional
You can convert HTML to Markdown or Markdown to HTML. You can use tools like pandoc to convert to other formats as well.
Pro Revision friendly
It is easy to track changes for markdown documents as compared to other formats like doc, html, etc. You only need to place your markdown documents under some version control system.
Pro Multistream
You can live stream across multiple platforms. You can distribute your stream(s) simultaneously to several Facebook accounts, Youtube Live, Twitch, and other social media platforms
Pro Subtitles
Subtitles can be created automatically and in an impressive quality.
Pro Video file
The video is available immediately after the livestream for download in different resolutions.
Pro Own player
A video player, which can be integrated into any website, is included. On request also with a chat.
Pro Cutting
It is possible to cut content from the running stream and export or publish it.
Pro Teamwork
Pro Graphics
Graphics, such as a logo, can be displayed
Cons
Con Lacks a coherent standard
Lacks a coherent standard, just many semi-compatible dialects (MultiMarkdown, etc). This inconsistency can cause problems if the person writing the Markdown is using a different dialect from the one that will be used to render it.
Con Bad support for table
It has poor support for table, while table is an important part of article.
Con Bad support for larger documents
Works good for single file documents like READMEs.
Lack support for cross-references, TOCs, document index etc.
Con It doesn't support semantic markup
It's unstructured.
Con It's expensive
1000 dollars per month.
Con Graphic
Unfortunately the graphics cannot be changed during the stream.
