Licat’s post:
This has been removed on purpose, as half of the markdown implementations on the market requires an empty line, and while live preview previously allowed tables without an empty line before, reading view didn’t, which was inconsistent and people found out that their tables didn’t work elsewhere.
It was a lot more of “hey why does it work here and not elsewhere” and it was much much easier to require an empty line then making reading view allow no empty lines
There’s also a major performance difference
Having an empty line makes parsing much faster