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A suggestion if I may... Don't use monospaced formatting (two-space prefix) as a way to put a '>' on every line of a long quote, as it becomes unreadable on mob
by Stratoscope 10y ago
A suggestion if I may... Don't use monospaced formatting (two-space prefix) as a way to put a '>' on every line of a long quote, as it becomes unreadable on mobile. One '>' at the beginning of each paragraph is good enough (with blank lines to separate paragraphs), or italics are fine too.
Here's a copy that should be readable on any device:
> Facebook is writing a Mercurial server in Rust. It will be distributed and will support pluggable key-value stores for storage (meaning that we could move hg.mozilla.org to be backed by Amazon S3 or some such). The primary author also has aspirations for supporting the Git wire protocol on the server and enabling sub-directories to be git cloned independently of a large repo. This means you could use Mercurial to back your monorepo while still providing the illusion of multiple "sub-repos" to Mercurial or Git clients. The author is also interested in things like GraphQL to query repo data. Facebook engineers are crazy... in a good way.
- steveklabnik 10y agoThis is offtopic so I'll leave it to just this one reply, but thanks! Lack of quoting in HN's markdown is the only part I have actual frustration with it; I usually use the two-space + wrap format because it makes it much more clear that it's a quote; I find your version hard to tell. But that said, I checked on my phone, and I see what you're saying about mobile. Ugh.
- pohl 10y agoHN markdown does support italics, so italicizing entire paragraphs is a viable alternative to differentiate what you're quoting from your own comments. I've seen folks do it now & then.