Discord seems to have fixed a longstanding issue with it's markdown parser for link formatting.

Issue is, generating genuine looking URLs in chat that go elsewhere is now trivial. This issue is mitigated a *bit* with the pop-up for users after clicking (some) links.

Then again, sometimes it's better to leave some bugs open on the issue tracker...🥴

It's important to write your if / elif statements with passive-aggressive comments as each check that *shouldn't* fail, does fail...

Right up until you have to ASK the user (Layer 8).