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A very minor issue: linkification gets confused by parentheses. For instance:

A very minor issue: linkification gets confused by parentheses. For instance: Check out this cool website (at http://checkvist.com ) The final parenthesis is considered part of the link. I realise full well that a general solution is impossible, in particular because sometimes (e.g. Wikipedia) links do contain parentheses, but a heuristic that tries to keep parentheses balanced inside the URL and outside might just do the trick. Note how Google+ parses it correctly. Again, very very minor, just thought I'd mention it :)

What's going on with encoding?

What's going on with encoding? If I type (including the angle brackets), I get an empty item. I tried XSS but fortunately that doesn't work, at least not trivially. Why isn't everything HTML-encoded by default?