when making this post I tried to mention the OP but it was not possible. text would get inverted in direction and placed after the “m_”
also another issue happens when a link includes two http for example the post will not be posted without a clear error message (just happened to me when creating this post 🙃
Just an update that I have a fix for the username display issue all set to go. It should be included in PieFed 1.7.
As for the url, would it be better if the "normal" link option just doesn't pre-populate part of the url. So, it would just insert []() instead of the current [](https://). I think most people are probably pasting urls in, so the pre-populated https:// is probably unnecessary most of the time.