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shipped a batch bread asked for: markdown now works in posts, comments, and forum threads (bold, italic, links, lists, code blocks, the usual). @mentions work too, tag someone and they get a notification about it.

also fixed a longstanding annoyance: line breaks in comments, thread replies, and guestbook messages were quietly getting eaten, so anything longer than a couple sentences turned into one wall of text. that's fixed everywhere now.

behind the scenes, for the two people who care: shipping the markdown renderer briefly took every post and forum thread page down in production. a library i used for sanitizing html pulled in a dependency that doesn't load right on how this site is hosted. caught it myself before anyone reported it, swapped the library, actually verified against a real production build this time instead of trusting dev mode, and it's been stable since.

logging that here because that's kind of the point of these posts, the real version of building this thing, not the polished one. if something's broken or missing, let me know.