Strikeout doesn't work properly with markdown

Question

Strikeout in HTML (using <s>...</s> or <del>...</del>) doesn't strike out links to tags as specified in mardown. For example:

<s>See [tag:discussion] for some questions that require discussion.</s>

is interpreted as

See discussion for some questions that require discussion.

here. However, on Meta.SO, the above is rendered as

This is clearly a bug.

Answer 1

I pushed a fix to our dev server. It will be on live after the next production build.