🤮 I hate how crazy this got but maybe it's not as bad as I think...
Basically we were seeing an issue where when a user pasted a link in, the "markdown" characters were being escaped, even though they were not actually valid markdown characters because they weren't in the right context.
Like _ is a markdown character, but if there's no matching closing character, it doesn't need to be escaped.
Similarily, when a markdown character is like this: h_a_h it shouldn't be escaped because markdown dictates there needs to be whitespace.
I was hoping this issue wasn't a big deal and wanted to ignore it, but the issue with the links was too big to ignore.
🤮 I hate how crazy this got but maybe it's not as bad as I think...
Basically we were seeing an issue where when a user pasted a link in, the "markdown" characters were being escaped, even though they were not actually valid markdown characters because they weren't in the right context.
Like _ is a markdown character, but if there's no matching closing character, it doesn't need to be escaped.
Similarily, when a markdown character is like this: h_a_h it shouldn't be escaped because markdown dictates there needs to be whitespace.
I was hoping this issue wasn't a big deal and wanted to ignore it, but the issue with the links was too big to ignore.