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They're rendering the new HTML to check for changes as compared with the old HTML, and discarding updates that change the output. So essentially they are leaving the rendered HTML alone. "...if we detected that a post would look [different] when rendered with the new CommonMark renderer during the migration, we wouldn't save a new version of this post as part of the migration."

miken32
– miken32

2020-06-05 17:06:50 +00:00
Commented Jun 5, 2020 at 17:06
Keeping html different from source is a time bomb, that will hit the next editor, who doesn’t expect to fix markdown differences

Michael Freidgeim
– Michael Freidgeim

2021-04-13 12:37:33 +00:00
Commented Apr 13, 2021 at 12:37

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