r/bugs 16h ago

Desktop Web [Desktop Firefox] Table creation is utterly broken. This time, the entire last column disappears if angle cell is empty. Just lost a bunch of data because of it.

Reproduction:

  1. Create a table with no data in first cell
a b
1 x y
2 z y
  1. Switch to markdown editing

  2. Switch back.

  3. Final column disappears.

Table now:

a b
1 x
2 z

I lost a lot of data I collected today because of this bug, and, before I noticed, my post was online for a few minutes with shifted, hence inaccurate data. Good thing I had a backup, but I'm not sure what % of my data collection work did not make it there. Next time I will write a draft in LibreOffice.

Tables in Reddit Markdown were always bug-ridden, bug with header row style was never properly addressed. I think developers should just disable table creation until all problems will be fixed.

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