Hey off topic, but if you use that markdown style for long quotes, it's simply awful looking on mobile. Gotta scroll waaaaay to the right, then alllll the way back.
I just do this:
>Hello I am a quote that is extremely long lined with no newlines. I will break based on the width of your device just like any other normal text inside an HTML element. Look how long I am wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Listen. This is an HN style sheet problem, not user choice problem. The fact is, using the preformatted macro is a better way to highlight verbatim passages of text.
>Your version just mixes in with everything else you typed, and hardly looks like a differentiable block of text at all, regardless of whether it wraps or not.
Hey look! A completely distinct
block of text. And wow! It's
monospaced too! This gives the
impression that it's reprinted
exactly as originally written!
And all I had to do, to make phone
people happy was manually wrap at
maybe, like 30 chars. Amazing!
I just do this:
>Hello I am a quote that is extremely long lined with no newlines. I will break based on the width of your device just like any other normal text inside an HTML element. Look how long I am wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Works pretty well for me, thought I'd mention it.