Hyperlinks In New Issue Comments Break When Submitting

Hi everyone,

I am using Gitlab.com and recently I have been finding that when I submit a comment with a link in it, the link breaks when the submission is successful.

  • What are you seeing, and how does that differ from what you expect to see?

So for example, I put a link like this in an issue https://genericwebsite.com/?page_id=87&preview=1&_ppp=22da5b1ca2 and I checked it and it worked as expected but after submitting the comment, the text and the actuak link had changed to https://genericwebsite.com/?page_id=87&preview=1&\_ppp=22da5b1ca2

This only appears to have started happening in the past couple of weeks and has happened with multiple different links.

I have tried checking these forums as well as issues on Gitlab.com but couldn’t find anything that matched what I was experiencing with comments.

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Make an issue in Gitlab SaaS
  2. Copy and paste a link like I provided above into a new comment
  3. Submit the comment and you should find the link changes