I could not reproduce the example issues from the blog post, but the dual asterices inside the back ticks still fail for me.

The upside is that it's now possible to have bold passages in monospaced text. I missed that before.

Here's a gif of the second issue from the blog post, just reproduced on my client

https://i.imgur.com/X8FZJhi.gif

Ah, earlier today the Slack app on my Mac had not updated yet -- there I experience the same issue.

The web client on Firefox works better, though: https://imgur.com/a/X53iIlm

Edit: On Chrome it's broken for me too....

Well, that just looks like a bug then.

I think the concern is mostly about what Slack was actually trying to achieve.

Yeah, seems this was fixed pretty quickly by not parsing the ` immediately but only after you've entered the closing `