Upgraded Text Editor is now live!

https://help.disqus.com/en/articles/1717235-comment-text-formatting

What’s changed

First and foremost, our new text editor now provides commenters a much more intuitive WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) experience that lets you format your text (bolditalicsstrikethrough, etc.) and see exactly what your comment or reply will look like before you publish it.

Markdown & hotkey support

We’ve also introduced Markdown support to our text editor, allowing you to format your text quickly via easy-to-use Markdown.

Here’s a list of Markdown syntax that is supported by the new text editor: 

We’ve also added hotkey support to allow you to format your text via keyboard shortcuts.

Here’s a list of primary hotkeys supported by the new text editor:

Read more here at the Disqus Blog: https://blog.disqus.com/new-improved-text-editor