I have noticed that it has trouble using the correct reply style. For instance in this reply (and other similar replies) despite people consistently using * replies the tool uses : (and in the linked reply it also added an extra line break). Here it previewed correctly but still ended up using a : as the ultimate reply style causing it to render incorrectly. For me taking the human error out of this - because it's don't incorrectly a lot - is a hidden advantage for this tool and it's disappointing to see that it's not yet handling this correctly.
Topic on Talk:Talk pages project/Replying/Flow
This reply was to Masem's reply to me but it only idented two levels rather than three.
Replying to * with *: is intentional (for the moment). That's because some people prefer ** and some prefer *:, and outside of the Russian Wikipedia, there is little agreement on what the One True™ Style is. Those replies were originally ** and editors asked to have it changed. Now that it's *:, other editors are asking to have it changed back. The team's plan is to figure it out later.
Reply to * with : is wrong – assuming that you were replying to the * and not to the original comment at the top of the section (in which case, this is AFAICT a consequence of the decision about ** vs *:).
Replying to :: with :: is wrong. I notice that all of these examples come from a single page. Have you noticed this happening anywhere else? (There might be something 'wrong' with the structure elsewhere on the page.)
I feel like I did experience the wrong indent level on another page but I cannot quickly find it now. If I do I'll add it to the Phab task.
And yes I did reply to Sportingflyer's bulleted reply. As I said it previewed correctly but then rendered wrong.
Repeating my comment from Phabricator here:
The comment above is missing a parenthesis in the timestamp
22:33, 9 November 2020 (UTC. As a result it is not detected as a comment, so it becomes part of the next comment. The next comment is now a mixed-level comment with a minimum level of 1 indentation, which is why the reply has 2 indentation.This is more clear when you turn
dtdebugon: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Notability&oldid=988997384&dtenable=1&dtdebug=1#Is_the_GNG_a_test_or_a_standard?
As the tool relies on complete signatures to detect comment boundaries, I don't think there is anything that can be done here.
Hm, maybe I am not deeply involved with this topic, but when you have a look at this discussion page: w:de:Diskussion:Predator_(Film)#Korrekte_Verwendung_des_alias-Begriffs?. I cannot notice missing parenthesis. --Smarti (talk) 22:06, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
@Smarti: You didn’t use this tool. This tool is desktop-only (yet?), the mobile site has another reply functionality. (And German Wikipedia doesn’t have this tool yet anyway.) When I forcibly enable it by going to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Predator_(Film)?dtenable=1 (desktop site), it seems to work well (although I haven’t actually saved a comment).