diff --git a/lib/PostText.pm b/lib/PostText.pm
index 05fb4ae..dd16d95 100644
--- a/lib/PostText.pm
+++ b/lib/PostText.pm
@@ -33,7 +33,11 @@ sub startup($self) {
     $self->helper(hr => sub ($c) {
         state $hr = HTML::Restrict->new(
             filter_text            => 0,
-            strip_enclosed_content => []
+            strip_enclosed_content => [],
+            rules                  => {
+                br => [],
+                s  => []
+            }
             )
     });
 
diff --git a/templates/page/about.html.ep b/templates/page/about.html.ep
index 55dc25b..e3fed38 100644
--- a/templates/page/about.html.ep
+++ b/templates/page/about.html.ep
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ This is correct for a multi-line code block:
     }
   </code></pre>
   <p>You can use an actual tab character or four spaces to indent.
-    <strong>Only Markdown is supported, HTML will be filtered
-    out.</strong></p>
+    Only Markdown as well as the HTML tags <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> and
+    <code>&lt;s&gt;</code> are supported. <strong>All other HTML will
+    be filtered out.</strong></p>
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