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Please fix the excessive HTML escaping of posts (self.lemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AlmightySnoo to c/[email protected]

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Right now Lemmy is unusable for writing code that contains less than/greater than signs because Lemmy's sanitizer treats that as potentially malicious HTML code.

Here's an example:

if(x &lt; y)
{
/* ... */
}

The listing becomes littered with < gibberish.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It actually looks perfectly fine on Sync for Lemmy so I assume this is only a front-end problem. There are alternative front-ends that you could try.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what it looks in the web UI: Screenshot showing the bracket turns to ampersand lt

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is how it looks on Sync, seems like he's a front end issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are alternative front-ends that you could try.

The 3 frontends for browser / PC that I know (default, mlmym and alexandrite) have this problem. Do you know of any other one that works?

Thanks!