@solmak
Thank you for spending time on this, that was fast!
he is quite speedy @baris is known to create a new plugin in 3 minutes of it being discussed in the forum... lol
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-best-posts/issues/2
@baris Thanks a lot for replying, and I apologize for wasting your time
I somehow got the markdown plugin disabled while upgrading, hence the issue.
Enabling it back up solved it.