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[jesse_the_k]


Sometimes the "@user.sitename.tld" shortcuts don’t work as expected.

The bugs are slightly different with plain text/HTML vs Markdown. Markdown-coded posts are tagged.

I've tested the issue with all 61 versions of the shortcuts listed here:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=87

For simplicity's sake, in this comm I demonstrated the bugs with the four variants of the AO3:

\@user.archiveofourown.org
\@user.archiveofourown
\@user.ao3.org
\@user.ao3

There are four bugs:

ETA: 8 May 2020. This one seems to be fixed!
1. Markdown: When the shortcut is bracketed by backticks for `code` format, the display explodes shortcuts into raw HTML code

2. HTML and Markdown: periods disappear when they directly follow @user.sitename.tld or @user.sitename

(2a. Markdown: workaround! with @user.sitename.tld\. or @user.sitename\. the backslash escape permits the period to display as it should)

3. HTML and Markdown: Shortcut never expands before period for @user.site or @user.abbrev

4. Markdown at the phrase level -- bold, italic -- suppresses shortcut expansion, displaying @user.sitename.tld or its variants