In that case, change the b/ to br/ and all will be good. The HTML tag for line break is br. Some interpreters insist on a closing /. But that's increasingly rare. So < br > without the spaces is the usual way to put a new line in Markdown without actually pressing Enter twice.
And I thought this stuff I've learned would never be useful! Thank you for the opportunity to flex my old grey cells.
!BBH
thanks for the head-ups. however, I am still wondering why things keep changing. but well, that is the pinch of salt in the soup of life:)
I can only assume that it's something to do with changes to the Hive blog source code. But checking that code is well beyond my capability.