balena-io-modules / balena-procbots

Process bots used for automating the development and deployment CI pipeline
https://balena-io-modules.github.io/balena-procbots/
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SyncBot: New lines are sometimes not propagated from Discourse to Front #585

Open lekkas opened 6 years ago

lekkas commented 6 years ago

Example, compare this Discourse post:

to this message, as it was synced to Front:

sqweelygig commented 6 years ago

There's probably some discrepancy between the three different markdown processors engaged on that thread, needs a brief dig.

sqweelygig commented 6 years ago

This is because Front follows markdown-as-code conventions and Flowdock and Discourse follow markdown-as-user-input conventions around new lines. Specifically whether a single new line, on it's own, affects the render. Users expect that a new line will count. Coders expect that it will not.