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Anyone who knows where to find the actual source code of the Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange WYSIWYG editor? (it has a strikethrough bug)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/27

I edited an answer to [Wayback/Archive] git – View rendered output of a gist? – Stack Overflow¹ and it appears that Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange have introduced a WYSIWYG editor of which the help still points to the old Markdown editor.

[Wayback/Archive] Markdown Editing Help – Stack Overflow

The problem is that the new WYSIWYG editor generates Markdown that in part cannot be properly rendered by the Markdown question / answer viewer (for instance, strikethrough is emitted as by the WYSIWYG editor in Markdown as ˜˜strikethrough˜˜ but the viewer can only render <s>strikethrough</s>.

Since their meta sites are toxic as hell:

is there anyone that knows where to find the source code of the Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange  WYSIWYG editor?

Thanks!

From the links below, I doubt the StackExchange pagedown repository is the one as it has been unmaintained since 2012 and the WYSIWYG editor is still in beta: I would have expected bug fixes over time, but there aren’t. Or maybe that all is caused by the toxicity on their platform?

This was my queste for information and some of the links I found:

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Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News (and a few links on SEDE – Stack Exchange Data Explorer)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26

Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote:

The complex questions still get asked on Stack because there’s no other place. If the LLMs are only as good as the data, which is typically human curated, we’re one of the best places for that, if not the best for technology.

I wonder about how far it has declined now, and also think these are reasons for the decline as well:

Anyway, the graph in that post is just a sexy version of a query you can create yourself on the SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer). That’s why I included both below.

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