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Show an example. You can post the less than and great than tags with

ampersand g t ; and ampersand l t ;
& g t ; & l t;

> <

<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/">The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown</a>

Gets mangled into this:
The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown

EDIT: looks like it has been fixed?!

Test Two:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/

No! Still busted ^^^^^^^
But if you do the & l t & g t nonsense, the second a href is processed properly (as in my first example).

@richwicks, patrick, or anyone else, Can you copy the following line and try to put in a post:
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/">The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown</a>

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/

Seems to work for me.

@EBGuy tell me more about what you mean by busted. I'll watch this thread.

Patrick says

Seems to work for me.

It did NOT work for you.
>The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown<
was deleted!

Ah, now I see what you mean!

Let me try to figure out the problem. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the single quote in the title.

EBGuy says

<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/">The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown</a>

Sure can:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/

The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown

OK, now it's fixed (meaning that it keeps the text of the link you paste in).

Let me know if I broke something else in the meantime. You can just comment here.

The Liberals Who Can’t Quit Lockdown

Nice! All systems go. Hat tip to richwicks for & l t and & g t to make this happen.

Patrick says

OK, now it's fixed (meaning that it keeps the text of the link you paste in).

Let me know if I broke something else in the meantime. You can just comment here.

@Patrick - ever consider making a regression test? That is, send known input to this website, and verify that how that data is presented is consistent, with the exception of any improvements / changes you purposely made?

I find that invaluable. You just make a bunch of small input files, and verify that the output file is the same from one revision to another.

I should do more of that. Clearly I need it.

Right now, I have just a quick login, post, and comment test that has to pass for me to commit any change to git.

Patrick says

I should do more of that. Clearly I need it.

Right now, I have just a quick login, post, and comment test that has to pass for me to commit any change to git.

You could use wget/curl to post and pull - the problem would be the login, but I think that can be handled. You could have a page that doesn't require a login, and only allows posts from a particular IP address, and removes the post(s) in 1 hour or so.

I use regression quite often to remove the need for Q/A. It's not that I'm a god of a coder, but a lot of people think I am, just because I have scripts to verify my work so it's rare when I introduce a bug without being aware of it.