what am I missing here… preview looks fine, published post is all [[[()()([][][]

Could there be any HTML tags around the list? Markdown isn’t usually processed inside containing tags, but unfortunately the preview and final post use slightly different Markdown rendering, so it could be inconsistent because of that.

@manton
I had a line break and list / list item tags. The line break maybe? I’ve used it in other posts though without a problem. Obviously something I did thought because @octaviocc version posted fine.

@mandaris Preview is more forgiving than the actual post. My usual problem is to omit a blank line, because neither my brain nor preview needs it.

@ctwardy aha, noted. I’ve had this happen before, now I might know what to look for to fix it!

I went back and just put it into html. I figured that if I wanted to work, I should do it myself.