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> (which is a mess even if you ignore all the tables – for example, the first paragraph in a comment usually isn't wrapped in <p> tags)

Oh, that's in the actual API.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8422922.json?prin...

I strongly hope they add a plain-text field for returned comments.

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What you're getting there is how the comment text happens to be stored (and presumably always has been). We've talked about changing that, because it would allow us to do some implementation improvements like... well, I forget just now. Might have had to do with caching. Anyhow, if enough people want it, we'll bump up the priority.

I would love it. Markdown would be the bee's knees there, if you can reverse it.

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