Noticed that my formatting does not render on Lemmy’s end, why is that? Can it be fixed?

  • freamon
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    11 months ago

    This is what Lemmy sees when it pulls your Mag through:

          "name": "progresspics",
          "title": "Post your progress!",
          "description": "Show off your hard work! (Not limited to just weight loss) \\*\\*Use this format when posting pictures:\\*\\*\n\\\\\\> \\*Gender/Age/Height [Weight Before \\> Weight After = Total Amount Lost] (Time period in months) Personal title\\*\n\\\\\\> \\*Example: F/23/5'5\" [289lbs \\> 250lbs = 39lbs] (4 months) I am very proud of myself!\\* \\*\\*RULES\\*\\*\n\\\\\\> Be respectful\n\\\\\\> Support one another\n\\\\\\> No sexual comments \\*(based on the subreddit)\\*",
    

    As you can see, all your markdown is being escaped like crazy.
    I don’t know what the solution is.
    It doesn’t help that KBIN uses slightly different markdown than Lemmy (e.g. underscores for italics on KBIN, asterisks for italics on Lemmy)

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Has Lemmy done any processing on that or is that exactly how it comes out of the kbin API?

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        11 months ago

        I don’t know - I just looked at KBIN’s API reference and just as I was thinking “This is better than Lemmy’s”, it transpires that dev.karab.in isn’t resolvable.