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The writer got absolutely roasted in that article. LOL. “Are you going to be paid for writing this story?” a Scottish player asked me. “Because I am losing

The writer got absolutely roasted in that article. LOL. “Are you going to be paid for writing this story?” a Scottish player asked me. “Because I am losing three days’ wages to be here so that I can get screwed by you.” (why does HN still not support decent formatting)

jlgaddis 10y ago
I usually quote like this: > “Are you going to be paid for writing this story?” a Scottish player asked me. “Because I am losing three days’ wages to be here so that I can get screwed by you." The leading > and italics make it clear that it's quoted and it avoids making the reader scroll horizontally. Not perfect but it's about the best you can do here, AFAIK.
- jnordwick 10y ago
  It is best you can do and it is horrible HN still doesn't have good and easy comment formatting. Try posting small piece of code. You hear me HN?!
  - Keverw 10y ago
    I really wished HN supported markdown personally. Edit: I found the formatting doc for HN https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc > Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.) So that might be the answer to putting code on here. function say(message: string, volume: number): void { //do text to speech code here } but still markdown would be nicer. just do and depending on the phaser/styling it will even do code syntax coloring to increase readability. ```typescript new line with the code ``` (Edit again: Without the 2 spaces, HN put my markdown example all on one line) I guess moving HN to markdown could be done. Just say all posts after X date are markdown(or add a boolean to the post in the DB saying so. Then have the editor have like a preview button(but I know HN likes to be lite on JS stuff) but the md could be generated server-side, but do the preview client side.

jlgaddis 10y ago

I usually quote like this: > “Are you going to be paid for writing this story?” a Scottish player asked me. “Because I am losing three days’ wages to be here so that I can get screwed by you." The leading > and italics make it clear that it's quoted and it avoids making the reader scroll horizontally. Not perfect but it's about the best you can do here, AFAIK.

jnordwick 10y ago
It is best you can do and it is horrible HN still doesn't have good and easy comment formatting. Try posting small piece of code. You hear me HN?!
- Keverw 10y ago
  I really wished HN supported markdown personally. Edit: I found the formatting doc for HN https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc > Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.) So that might be the answer to putting code on here. function say(message: string, volume: number): void { //do text to speech code here } but still markdown would be nicer. just do and depending on the phaser/styling it will even do code syntax coloring to increase readability. ```typescript new line with the code ``` (Edit again: Without the 2 spaces, HN put my markdown example all on one line) I guess moving HN to markdown could be done. Just say all posts after X date are markdown(or add a boolean to the post in the DB saying so. Then have the editor have like a preview button(but I know HN likes to be lite on JS stuff) but the md could be generated server-side, but do the preview client side.