When I type three backticks, a newline and again three backticks to start a code block I get the following behavior:
When I try to copy-paste the three backticks, to avoid this auto-detection, then it keeps the backticks, but it doesn’t work either:
```
should be a code block
```
I repeated your exact sequence and it
works for me
browser related?
I tried some more things, and I think it only breaks when I use shift+enter to create newlines.
You’re in rich text mode. Click the toggle with the M/A beside the Bold icon to switch to markdown mode.
Ah thank you that was it. Though I could swear I didn’t touch this setting.
IIRC rich text mode got activated for me, so probably also with everyone else, with the last Discourse update.