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FWIW - If you feel that's a bug worth reporting, drop an email to the site admins at hn@ycombinator.com so they're aware of it.

• tim-- 8y ago
  To be honest, it's probably for the best, it's just that this is one of those edge cases where it was used for a legitimate purpose.
• Cthulhu_ 8y ago
  I'm fairly sure that the HN comment system has been built back in the early to mid 2000's and hasn't been updated since.
  • detaro 8y ago
    It supports unicode. And indeed, for a while you could post emoji, until they were added to filters disallowing them. You can still find old posts containing them, rendering correctly.
  • lucb1e 8y ago
    You must have missed the recent additions of 'unvote'/'undown', deleting posts (I am not sure anymore, but don't think this was possible a few years ago), limiting edit time, much fewer (in my experience: no more) 'no such thing' errors when the cache expired, collapsible comment trees, etc. These are all small improvements that made it a lot better. That the look hasn't changed for as long as I'm here, I'm quite happy about. If the alternative is something with loads of whitespace and Javascript like Reddit, Skype, etc., then please let us not update "the comment system from the early to mid 2000s".
  • Jaruzel 8y ago
    Which to be honest, is one of the great things about it. It's clean, it's simple, it's fast, and more importantly it's NOT phpBB.