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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by marknadal on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:48PM (#21699178)
Um, no, this is not impossible, us editor folks have been inserting 0-width space after the tag and selecting it for years.

The team the size of Slack should/could have easily worked around that.

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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by Hupriene on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:02AM (#21699734)
Good point. The developer tendency to resist fixing bugs caused by our tools just leads to complacency about broken tools.
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