title: Why was markdown deprecated in Django 1.5+?
body: <p>I've been planning to use markdown for a lot of the static content of a Website. </p>
  
  <p>Given Python's markdown module, that's easy enough to do, but I noted that Django used to have builtin markdown support that was deprecated in version 1.5. I presume that there was a good reason for that, and I don't have any interest in walking down the same path myself if this is a bad idea. </p>
  
  <p>What were the reasons for deprecating builtin markdown support in Django, and do those reasons still apply to the use of markdown in general within Django 1.9+?</p>