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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.

Works pretty well for me, thought I'd mention it.



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!


Nope. That didn't work. I still had to scroll, even after all the work you put in to format it.

If ">" doesn't differentiate the quote enough, use italics with it:

  > *Quote here*
> Everyone recognizes this as a quote, and it renders perfectly on every device. I didn't have to do any manual wrapping. It's easy!

> Use a blank line to separate paragraphs.




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