Another question: Why is that $$anonymous$$ used in first place?
Nevermind, I found another thread talking about it.
[Certain characters and groups of characters get replaced with “$$Anonymous$$” | Page 2 - Unity Forum]( Certain characters and groups of characters get replaced with "$$Anonymous$$" page-2)
It’s a bug.
Unfortunately that can’t be the only reason. They must still have some rogue script, service or security issue since those replacements are still happening and not only on old posts. Lately literally every occurrence of “hi” in affected posts got replaced. Not necessary to mention that those two letters appears quite ofteh in the english language (Just “this” and “which” are enough to screw up many posts). As I said a couple of times already, usually the actual content is not affected. In the past editing the post loaded the original content. Just pressing save again had fixed the post. Currently that’s no longer the case, however if a post has several revisions (so it got edited in the past), just selecting a different revision and switching back also brings back the original content. Likewise in the revision history I can still see the unaltered content, even of the seemingly empty comments. I still hope they bring back the comments. I wrote 12k comments on UA and I can’t go through all of them to bring them back. Some are also pointless without the other comments of the conversations.
Just a couple of month ago we got this Q which seems promising at first. After all those years of slow degrading they may finally fix some of the issues. However the reality was that just a day after this “contact” with UA, ALL comments went blank and even new ones didn’t work. A day later we could post new comments again, but old ones are still blank. The replacement of “hi” started a few weeks later I think. So currently it just looks like the next step of degrading…
My assumption is that management didn’t like it when the community told them to keep it, so they’re going to keep it but spend absolutely zero dollars on fixes. Wouldn’t surprise me if they privately nudged a pal for a favor to introduce the bugs we’re seeing.