https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_(Lost_in_Space)
I see that, while existing posts e.g. https://piefed.social/post/1753237 still have a problem, it seems to work in this new post (as in, the entire URL is linkified including the final bracket) 👏
existing posts still have a problem
This is because the markdown to html conversion is only performed when the markdown source is created or edited. The html generated from old posts isn’t going to update on its own.
Thanks for the info
I was able to use some admin powers to fix up that post specifically (basically force it to refresh the html). However, that kind of manual process doesn’t scale well. Let me know if there are other posts that are problematic that you want fixed up.
None off the top of my head, thanks.
I suspect (don’t have expertise) for content aggregator platforms like Piefed & Lemmy, most of the interaction with the post & comments are in the first few days, so retroactive correction isn’t important.
Yeah, that is exactly right. It would be more important for something like a pinned post that is used as a reference that might be older.
I have been doing quite a bit of work on the markdown parsing recently in addition to the parentheses in links issue. A brief list:
- nested spoiler blocks don’t break things
- nested blockquotes don’t break things
- spoiler blocks inside blockquotes don’t break things (this happened a lot with how lemmy creates giant blockquotes from crossposts)
- mp4 and webm videos can now be embedded in markdown using the
format (these are the only two formats supported by the html<video>tag)
