Output widget's "Stack Lines" option ignores instances

In Studio, with the Stack Lines option enabled, consecutively printing the same instance displays each call separately.

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me debugging my building system:

This is because we also add a link to the instance that you can click to navigate to it, in addition to just the text. These are harder to detect as duplicates under the hood, and we don’t stack them as a result, so this behavior is currently expected.
One workaround is to turn on Log Mode, which will get rid of some functionality like expandable tables but would stack instance prints as you expect here.

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Thanks for the response. I’d love to enable Log Mode; however, I intend on utilizing the instance-link functionality.

PS: Writing this off as the expected behavior™ is a cop-out. :wilted_flower:

That’s fair. A more accurate statement would be “it is understood why we don’t do this”, not “it is expected behavior”, which implies we shouldn’t do this.
A ticket for this issue has been triaged and we will respond in this thread once we take a look. Thanks for letting us know about this.

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The impression I initially got was, “We know and it will probably remain this way.” :sweat_smile:

Thanks for clearing up the confusion.