@bot @ne @newt it doesn't matter what's "correct" according to some spec if in reality your change breaks people's stuff. being forced to have all mentions in all posts all of the time is dumb and backwards. but alex was irresponsible with the rollout of a breaking change

half the code around here (and FOSS in general really) is barely maintained at any given time but it works specifically because people don't constantly make breaking changes to the core infra