Post #3149565

2026-05-10 19:01 UTC

If you don't see this behavior in your Mastodon profile, it's probably because you're running an older version of the Web software. I'm on mastodon.social and it's currently running version v4.6.0-alpha.7+pr-38939-5f3002f. Again, because I don't normally look at my own profile, I have no idea when this heinous formatting began in the development process. Because my version is an alpha, I hope that means there's plenty of time for Mastodon to fix this self-inflicted mistake. 3/3

Replies (10)

@TheEddieShow@beige.party 2026-05-10 19:04

@lisamelton@mastodon.social Sis, I read about the new v. of Mastodon, saw examples and *loathed it.

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@sandorspruit@mastodon.nl 2026-05-10 19:04

@lisamelton@mastodon.social FYI: I don’t see the behavior you describe

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@larand@appdot.net 2026-05-10 19:04

@lisamelton@mastodon.social For what it’s worth, I’m seeing your bio as you intended. It must be an issue with the alpha.

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@vor@lgbtqia.space 2026-05-10 19:22

@lisamelton@mastodon.social I'm using @ivory@tapbots.social on iOS and iPadOS. The web version depends on your instance, and what they choose. My gripe with the web versions is that timestamps are differential. I don't want to know how long ago something was posted — I want to know *when* in system time format (I prefer 24-hour time). And yes, I use emdashes. My COMM 1303 instructor was insistent that we learn how to punctuate them correctly, and they've easy using the TypWise keyboard.

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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange 2026-05-10 19:56

@lisamelton@mastodon.social Must be a very recent change, because the profile looks fine on infosec.exchange, which is running v4.6.0-alpha.7+glitch.

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@siwek@social.tooinconsistent.com 2026-05-10 20:37

@lisamelton@mastodon.social it seems to be caused by https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38920/changes#diff-edd345ee45838ecdc48d8b64ba5f0d4475300e2cc36e696a937fe012a6e025caL8332 and from the context of the PR it seems that hopefully it is not intentional.

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 20:39

@lisamelton@mastodon.social looks like it’s a display error, not changing the underlying data that gets displayed. Looks consistent with the way browsers collapse whitespace if the raw text is embedded in HTML without adding the corresponding tags and/or entities. I’ve lost track, are there Mastodon devs we could tag to bring this to their attention? Would you want them tagged in this thread?

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@arazil@elvenstar.cafe 2026-05-11 15:44

@lisamelton@mastodon.social Looks like this will probably be fixed in the next nightly... See Mastodon PR #38988 at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38988 for more details. PR just landed about 4 hours from publication of this message.

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@masek@infosec.exchange 2026-05-11 20:39

@lisamelton@mastodon.social Let’s aim for full markdown in Posts and Profile. Bonus are awarded for Mermaid 😁.

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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-06-03 03:56

@lisamelton@mastodon.social Why would they introduce such a regression? I would have thought that functionality wouldn’t be touched, as it was working fine.

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