2015-12-11 11:52 GMT+01:00 Purodha Blissenbach purodha@blissenbach.org:
Reported as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121209
Nemo closed it as invalid. While he is right that correct solution is ~~~~~ (5 tildes rather than 4), he is not right that the issue is purely a user error.
As mass delivery is a MW service (as far as I see, an extension), the software should handle it: either put the tildes itself or refuse a malformed message.
As Flow is ante portas (do I suppose correctly that it will work without tildes as LQT did?), the extension should check the existence of Flow and make the correct decision. At the point where some wikis use Flow and others don't, it is no more the user's responsibility to deal with tildes.