Writing a hashtag turns into HUGE heading
This is a request to detect a one-liner lead with a #
without a space, as a hashtag, and to not render it with markdown.
Technically, it's not a bug, as the markdown processor sees text like
#winning
as a header, and turns it into
winning
However, most people don't write a markdown header into the chat with nothing else. When they are typing like that they intend for it to be a silly comment like a hashtag, but instead get huge text rendered and are very confused.
Additionally, a typical way to do a markdown header is to put a space after the #
, so the markdown processor is being a bit lenient in this regard. (Aside, even GitHub's markdown processor doesn't recognize the #
without a space after it as a header, so even to type it for demonstration above, I had to add a space)
Perhaps, extending on this request, it could even just be turned into a link to Twitter. For example:
This is not the same as #488, which seems to be requesting co-opting hashtags for comment labeling purposes.