I complained about App Store Connect a few days ago, and I'm already back to complain about it again. While preparing an app update for submission, I discovered that What's New in This Version no longer accepts the < character.
On the other hand, it does still accept the > character.
This is a problem for me because the release notes of my web browser extension StopTheMadness sometimes need to mention HTML elements. Indeed, StopTheMadness has a specific feature that allows you to add custom HTML <script> and <style> elements to the page. I've filed FB11781987 with Apple about this issue.
I suspect < was forbidden because it's a special HTML that indicates the beginning of an element. Yet every other website in the world, including this very blog post, has figured out how to escape characters in HTML.
<Imagine if Facebook or Twitter didn't allow you to post < characters. Well, perhaps Twitter isn't the best example, because it will do lots of dumb things in coming months. Anyway, App Store Connect has done lots of dumb things in recent months. I can't believe we developers have to pay $99 per year for this crap! Which coincidentally is $8 per month…