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@@ -3095,6 +3246,7 @@ dependencies = [
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@@ -3107,12 +3259,18 @@ dependencies = [
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+"checksum twoway 0.2.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "6b40075910de3a912adbd80b5d8bad6ad10a23eeb1f5bf9d4006839e899ba5bc"
+"checksum typed-arena 1.7.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "a9b2228007eba4120145f785df0f6c92ea538f5a3635a612ecf4e334c8c1446d"
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+"checksum ucd-trie 0.1.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "56dee185309b50d1f11bfedef0fe6d036842e3fb77413abef29f8f8d1c5d4c1c"
+"checksum unchecked-index 0.2.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "eeba86d422ce181a719445e51872fa30f1f7413b62becb52e95ec91aa262d85c"
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+"checksum unicode_categories 0.1.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "39ec24b3121d976906ece63c9daad25b85969647682eee313cb5779fdd69e14e"
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@@ -3121,6 +3279,7 @@ dependencies = [
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diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index 3803485b4..5a4fdcece 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ config = "0.10.1"
 hjson = "0.8.2"
 percent-encoding = "2.1.0"
 isahc = "0.9"
-Markdown-to-HTML-rs = "0.1.0"
+comrak = "0.7"
diff --git a/server/src/db/mod.rs b/server/src/db/mod.rs
index dacdb6f6a..e0d358ffe 100644
--- a/server/src/db/mod.rs
+++ b/server/src/db/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-extern crate lazy_static;
 use crate::settings::Settings;
 use diesel::dsl::*;
 use diesel::result::Error;
diff --git a/server/src/lib.rs b/server/src/lib.rs
index 01f01ff10..8257dab9a 100644
--- a/server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/server/src/lib.rs
@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ pub extern crate actix;
 pub extern crate actix_web;
 pub extern crate bcrypt;
 pub extern crate chrono;
+pub extern crate comrak;
 pub extern crate dotenv;
 pub extern crate jsonwebtoken;
 pub extern crate lettre;
 pub extern crate lettre_email;
 pub extern crate rand;
 pub extern crate regex;
+pub extern crate rss;
 pub extern crate serde;
 pub extern crate serde_json;
 pub extern crate sha2;
@@ -218,6 +220,10 @@ fn fetch_iframely_and_pictshare_data(
   )
 }
 
+pub fn markdown_to_html(text: &str) -> String {
+  comrak::markdown_to_html(text, &comrak::ComrakOptions::default())
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
   use crate::{extract_usernames, is_email_regex, remove_slurs, slur_check, slurs_vec_to_str};
diff --git a/server/src/routes/feeds.rs b/server/src/routes/feeds.rs
index c94a60d45..6826cf5cb 100644
--- a/server/src/routes/feeds.rs
+++ b/server/src/routes/feeds.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-extern crate rss;
-
 use super::*;
 use crate::db::comment_view::{ReplyQueryBuilder, ReplyView};
 use crate::db::community::Community;
@@ -8,7 +6,7 @@ use crate::db::site_view::SiteView;
 use crate::db::user::{Claims, User_};
 use crate::db::user_mention_view::{UserMentionQueryBuilder, UserMentionView};
 use crate::db::{ListingType, SortType};
-use crate::Settings;
+use crate::{markdown_to_html, Settings};
 use actix_web::{web, HttpResponse, Result};
 use chrono::{DateTime, NaiveDateTime, Utc};
 use diesel::r2d2::{ConnectionManager, Pool};
@@ -18,7 +16,6 @@ use rss::{CategoryBuilder, ChannelBuilder, GuidBuilder, Item, ItemBuilder};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 use strum::ParseError;
-extern crate Markdown_to_HTML_rs;
 
 #[derive(Deserialize)]
 pub struct Params {
@@ -288,7 +285,7 @@ fn build_item(creator_name: &str, published: &NaiveDateTime, url: &str, content:
   i.guid(guid.unwrap());
   i.link(url.to_owned());
   // TODO add images
-  let html = Markdown_to_HTML_rs::replace_all(&content.to_string());
+  let html = markdown_to_html(&content.to_string());
   i.description(html);
   i.build().unwrap()
 }
@@ -348,8 +345,8 @@ fn create_post_items(posts: Vec<PostView>) -> Vec<Item> {
     p.number_of_comments);
 
     if let Some(body) = p.body {
-      let html = Markdown_to_HTML_rs::replace_all(&body);
-      description.push_str(&format!("<br><br>{}", html));
+      let html = markdown_to_html(&body);
+      description.push_str(&html);
     }
 
     i.description(description);
diff --git a/server/src/routes/nodeinfo.rs b/server/src/routes/nodeinfo.rs
index 75568608e..1263cef84 100644
--- a/server/src/routes/nodeinfo.rs
+++ b/server/src/routes/nodeinfo.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-extern crate lazy_static;
 use crate::db::site_view::SiteView;
 use crate::version;
 use crate::Settings;
diff --git a/server/src/settings.rs b/server/src/settings.rs
index ee3a3c072..d04ea8802 100644
--- a/server/src/settings.rs
+++ b/server/src/settings.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-extern crate lazy_static;
 use config::{Config, ConfigError, Environment, File};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use std::env;