diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/ikiwiki/directive/ymlfront/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/ikiwiki/directive/ymlfront/discussion.mdwn
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--- a/doc/plugins/contrib/ikiwiki/directive/ymlfront/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/ikiwiki/directive/ymlfront/discussion.mdwn
@@ -30,4 +30,8 @@ I have tried both the ymlfront directive and the YAML markup (with the
 > > 
 > > Now *that* has to be related... ;) In the index.db, there is no ymlfront metadata for the sandbox page... Note that the `---` delimiter approach doesn't trigger the warning but doesn't populate the DB either...
 > > 
-> > Finally note that after adding debugging code, I was able to figure out that this seems to be using the `YAML::XS` library. I have also traced the data and confirmed that `$yml_str` does get properly initialized in `parse_yml`, and it is where the error is generated. So maybe there's something wrong with the YAML library? --[[anarcat]]
+> > Finally note that after adding debugging code, I was able to figure out that this seems to be using the `YAML::XS` library. I have also traced the data and confirmed that `$yml_str` does get properly initialized in `parse_yml`, and it is where the error is generated. So maybe there's something wrong with the YAML library?
+> > 
+> > Update: well, look here: using `YAML::Syck` doesn't yield the same error *and* the metadata actually works! So this is a problem specific to `YAML::Any`. Hardcoding `use YAML::XS` or *even* `use YAML::Any` fixed the problem for me.
+> > 
+> > Now delimiters also work, but the output is kind of ugly: it gets parsed as regular markdown makup so the `---` makes horizontal lines in the beginning and headings in the end... --[[anarcat]]