diff --git a/src/webpage/localuser.ts b/src/webpage/localuser.ts
index db9dbc9..9947d75 100644
--- a/src/webpage/localuser.ts
+++ b/src/webpage/localuser.ts
@@ -283,8 +283,10 @@ class Localuser{
 					this.errorBackoff = 0;
 				else this.errorBackoff++;
 				this.connectionSucceed = 0;
+				const loaddesc=document.getElementById("load-desc") as HTMLElement;
 
-				(document.getElementById("load-desc") as HTMLElement).innerHTML = I18n.getTranslation("errorReconnect",Math.round(0.2 + this.errorBackoff * 2.8)+"")
+				loaddesc.innerHTML ="";
+				loaddesc.append(new MarkDown(I18n.getTranslation("errorReconnect",Math.round(0.2 + this.errorBackoff * 2.8)+"")).makeHTML());
 				switch(
 					this.errorBackoff //try to recover from bad domain
 				){
diff --git a/translations/en.json b/translations/en.json
index c7cce94..961f619 100644
--- a/translations/en.json
+++ b/translations/en.json
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
 			"reason:":"Reason:",
 			"ban":"Ban $1 from $2"
 		},
-		"errorReconnect":"Unable to connect to the server, retrying in <b>$1</b> seconds...",
+		"errorReconnect":"Unable to connect to the server, retrying in **$1** seconds...",
 		"retrying":"Retrying...",
 		"unableToConnect":"Unable to connect to the Spacebar server. Please try logging out and back in."
     },