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Comment by derp_dee_derp

6 years ago

Too bad I can't read it because HN quotes suck on mobile and don't work with the brave browser in Android.

@dang fix your mobile css and styling.

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dragonwriter  6 years ago

> Too bad I can't read it because HN quotes suck on mobile

HN quotes are fine on mobile. But, just to be clear, this is how HN does quotes:

“quoted text”

And this is how HN does code blocks

  def this_is(code)
    not_a_quote
  end

HN code blocks abused for long prose quotations suck on mobile (and aren't appealing on desktop, either), but that's abusing code blocks.

  • Veen  6 years ago

    You'd have a point if the quote in question was a long prose quotation. It isn't; it's a poem and code formatting is often the only way to get poetry to appear reasonable.

    • dragonwriter  6 years ago

      Code formatting does not get poetry to appear reasonable. That's actually the whole issue being discussed.

      On the other hand if you don't like each line spaced as a paragraph, as it would be if you try to keep the line structure I. HN non-code text, you can, on HN, use the same convention used everywhere else that it is impossible, impractical, or undesirable to set poetry while preserving the line structure:

      “this is a line of poetry / and this is another line / each separated from the next with / a solidus set with space / on either side.”

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    • JasonFruit  6 years ago

      Poetry is not a particularly common use case on Hacker News, though, and I'm not convinced anybody needs to optimize for it.

    • snazz  6 years ago

      HN gobbles up literal new lines without code blocks so either the poem would all run together or have blank lines between each line.