Noah wrote:

I would really like markdown, or an option for markdown, on the forums. Much less markup than BBCode. Also, it was invented by John Gruber!

daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

It's used on StackOverflow, Github and more.

Believe me, so would I.

I can't remove BBCode because people who also visit TouchArcade are used to it, but I'll be trying to add Markdown as well.

The problem is, I'll probably need to do it myself, by hand, as the capability doesn't exist out-of-the-box for the forum software I'm using.