Anyone else's < creepy wee brackets > making text disappear?

[SpinningMeSoftly]

Since the platform change, I've noticed that if I write text inside < creepy wee brackets > like this but without the spaces, the text and the brackets are invisible in the post; thus depriving the world of my witty asides.

<sidles in> ...now I want to test it too

I already knew it would do that, I just wanted to join in

Oh this takes me back. Invisible posts, invisible threads, invisible topics - back when this were all fields...

WAAH! My < sidles in > a disparu!

< worries about French >

some sites use these bad boys

pffft. some sites use these bad boys for something other than bolding

<Creepy wee brackets>

<Oh noes>

<just because>

Tee hee hee

Using the creepy wee brackets without the spaces means there's no text.

Cool, huh?

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ofgs, that'll teach me to try to join in.

HopeMN it'll be because you have superior equipment

< >

I very much doubt this. < pedals laptop >

<now I want to try>

Is this the strike through thingy and did we have it before?

Hope remember - no spaces between bracket and text.

Have another go!

Yes it is and yes we did @AbsolutelyNebulous

<creepy wee brackets rule>

I cant type messages at all on my ipad
I have switched to my laptop to type this

I suppose, given all that's been going on with MN today, it's just an amusing quirk. One for the journal and all that.

Brackets are used in HTML to leave comments that can only be seen when you view the code. Maybe if you use double brackets, I'll try <<test>>