Hi,
I’ve been reading through forum posts on here a lot lately, and I’ve seen many, many forum posts rendering broken code block sections. Oftentimes it’s rendered with additional markdown characters making its way into the code snippet such that it takes quite a bit of manual parsing to steal snippets from the forum posts.
For an example, see this forum post. edit: another example.
The post body has two code blocks, and it looks as if the first one renders correctly, but the second one breaks at like 84, and you can see lines after that being rendered as plaintext. I’ll post a screenshot of how that post shows up in my browser, and note that I’ve seen this rendering issue in several posts by now. I’ll dig around for more if requested. I’ve tested this in:
- Chrome (my current browser)
- Chrome Incognito Mode
- Microsoft Edge
It wouldn’t be so bad if the text after the broken render could be copied in with the rest of the snippet, but there appear to be some markdown things getting rendered such that the code can’t simply be pasted if spliced together as is.
I don’t know how this stuff is handled in the website implementation, but I imagine it has something to do with this migration. I think it would be really nice if, as a user, I could just open a flie containing the raw text of the post. Though, maybe because of the migration, that isn’t possible.
~Alex Bieniek
