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    You're right, this is one of those places where CommonMark will bring extended functionality to our markdown syntax. After switching over, 1)-style enumerations will automatically be transformed into ordered lists Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 12:33
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    @HamVocke: But only for new and edited posts, as you won’t automatically update the cache for those posts where there is a positive change – right? Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 12:59
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    Correct! Even though I'd consider this to be an improvement, our safeguards prevent us from automatically updating posts that would apply here. New posts and edits, however, get all the new commonmark goodness. Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 13:04
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    I have always thought it was a way to avoid it being formatted as a regular Markdown list (that is, some users go out of their way to control how the rendered result looks). Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 18:56
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    @P.Mort.-forgotClayShirky_q Another advantage of this finally getting fixed and this loophole for eschewing markdown getting closed. Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 19:15
  • @HamVocke There's probably a sizable corpus of old posts with 1)-style lists. If I understand correctly, these won't be migrated automatically, and would need to be checked manually? Commented Jun 4, 2020 at 10:21
  • @E.P.: Correct. Unless the post includes one of the "changes to the way [you] can write markdown" listed in the original post (e.g. the stuff mentioned for lists, blockquotes, code block highlighting), it won't be re-rendered if it's an existing post. The change would only be applied if the post was edited or a new post made. Commented Jun 4, 2020 at 22:29