In reply to Jeff Chandler.

Hi Jeff,

Unfortunately Jetpack is not an option for us. We don't believe in heavily bundled plugins. For Markdown I'm looking at a couple of interesting alternatives now.

1. [PrettyPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/prettypress/) includes a battle-tested WordPress implementation of tomarkdown.js ([Github](https://github.com/evasivesoftware/PrettyPress)).
2. [Typewriter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/typewriter/) stores text as Markdown and converts on the fly ([Github](https://github.com/Codeinwp/typewriter))

Allowing oEmbed in comments is an interesting idea. That would certainly help with YouTube although I'm not sure whether the YouTube oEmbed is a good citizen or not (too much branding, too many external links is not polite). Our FV Player version (which apparently already exists in the pro version, I'm thinking of moving YouTube comment support over to the free version) is very discreet. Your visitors might not even notice that the video came from YouTube.