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you cant use hashtags on microcosm, though. it does some funky formatting thing.

#toolazytoreadformattingguide

You can, but we use Markdown for formatting and today if you start a sentence with a hash symbol it thinks you're making a header.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#header

But if you put a #hashtag in the sentence (or at the end), then it is fine, and those are what we'll be auto-linking into the search function (when that appears).

An example:
https://sandbox.microcosm.app/conversations/63/#comment192

And the second post https://sandbox.microcosm.app/conversations/63/#comment193, shows that there is in fact a way to make sure hashtags are treated as hashtags, and as soon as we have the search function in place and start auto-linking hashtags we will put that feature in.

In essence, MarkDown syntax states that if a # starts a sentence, it's a header... but actually it should be more explicit: If a sentence starts "# " (with a space after the hashtag) then it's a header, otherwise if a sentence starts with "#[^\s]" (no space after the hashtag) then it's a hashtag.