HTML diff view is a bit broken

See the screenshot for a diff on an edit I made. Actually multiple edits, which might be a contributing factor, but combined into one historically (I guess due to being within a five minute window or such).

The meat of the edit is the adding of the last paragraph. But the diff algorithm seems to have latched on to some words in that paragraph that are in the first point in the bulleted list and then kept drawing the wrong conclusions.

The markdown view is more reliable :wink:

Yeah, just switch to Markdown view.

Ok, changing the title.

So in this case, just the last para was added? No other edits/changes? Ironically I can’t tell. Can you post a screenshot of the markdown diff?

Yeah, sorry. :slight_smile: Markdown diff below; the text at the end was added.

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I know it’s an old thread. But I think this issue hasn’t been resolved yet. And it’s not just the HTML diff. This is from my topic:

As you can see, I just added a new line after the image (hence that ins I guess). But three lines are highlighted which seems unnecessary. The same is true if I delete an empty line; I’ll get a del.