Special Character (!) no longer supported in tags on Desktop

[Shida]

Apologies for this breaking change. Tags were originally not intended to include punctuation, it was a long time bug that we recently fixed. (Mostly talking about #hashtag in general, especially used on twitter) Tags don’t include punctuation in almost every other app, which is why we’re fixing this bug. Here are links to some previous bug reports:

Trailing punctuation included in tags

Including a tag with punctuation immediately after it causes both the tag and the punctuation to be highlighted. For @example, in this sentence the highlighted portion would end up being: @example, This cosmetic detail isn’t very significant and the expected value (without the punctuation) is added to the suggested list; however, clicking on the highlighted label (to do a search) populates the find box with both the tag and the punctuation, and this is unexpected behavior. Steps to reproduce S…

Mentions/tags include common punctuation

Steps to reproduce Use tags and use common punctuation for @ person name mentions, like ? or ) Observe that they show up as separate instances now for tag completion and in tags list Expected result A single @ name tag is created and recognized consistently Actual result Many tags are created for completion and in tag list Environment Chrome macOS, but non-version specific Additional information / comments It seems that including punctuation at least in some cases is by design, based on …