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Too bad I can't read it because HN quotes suck on mobile and don't work with the brave browser in Android. @dang fix your mobile css and styling.

lenova 7y ago
Try this instead: https://hackerweb.app/ https://hackerweb.app/
- akvadrako 7y ago
  It’s not much better. Still requires scrolling left and right for each line.
dragonwriter 7y ago
> Too bad I can't read it because HN quotes suck on mobile HN quotes are fine on mobile. But, just to be clear, this is how HN does quotes: “quoted text” And this is how HN does code blocks def this_is(code) not_a_quote end HN code blocks abused for long prose quotations suck on mobile (and aren't appealing on desktop, either), but that's abusing code blocks.
- Veen 7y ago
  You'd have a point if the quote in question was a long prose quotation. It isn't; it's a poem and code formatting is often the only way to get poetry to appear reasonable.
  - JasonFruit 7y ago
    Poetry is not a particularly common use case on Hacker News, though, and I'm not convinced anybody needs to optimize for it.
  - snazz 7y ago
    HN gobbles up literal new lines without code blocks so either the poem would all run together or have blank lines between each line.
  - dragonwriter 7y ago
    Code formatting does not get poetry to appear reasonable. That's actually the whole issue being discussed. On the other hand if you don't like each line spaced as a paragraph, as it would be if you try to keep the line structure I. HN non-code text, you can, on HN, use the same convention used everywhere else that it is impossible, impractical, or undesirable to set poetry while preserving the line structure: “this is a line of poetry / and this is another line / each separated from the next with / a solidus set with space / on either side.”
    - derp_dee_derp 7y ago
      The whole issue being discussed is that HN made a terrible design desicion when they implemented quotes and code styling for Mobile.

lenova 7y ago

Try this instead: https://hackerweb.app/ https://hackerweb.app/

akvadrako 7y ago
It’s not much better. Still requires scrolling left and right for each line.

dragonwriter 7y ago

> Too bad I can't read it because HN quotes suck on mobile HN quotes are fine on mobile. But, just to be clear, this is how HN does quotes: “quoted text” And this is how HN does code blocks def this_is(code) not_a_quote end HN code blocks abused for long prose quotations suck on mobile (and aren't appealing on desktop, either), but that's abusing code blocks.

Veen 7y ago
You'd have a point if the quote in question was a long prose quotation. It isn't; it's a poem and code formatting is often the only way to get poetry to appear reasonable.
- JasonFruit 7y ago
  Poetry is not a particularly common use case on Hacker News, though, and I'm not convinced anybody needs to optimize for it.
- snazz 7y ago
  HN gobbles up literal new lines without code blocks so either the poem would all run together or have blank lines between each line.
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  Code formatting does not get poetry to appear reasonable. That's actually the whole issue being discussed. On the other hand if you don't like each line spaced as a paragraph, as it would be if you try to keep the line structure I. HN non-code text, you can, on HN, use the same convention used everywhere else that it is impossible, impractical, or undesirable to set poetry while preserving the line structure: “this is a line of poetry / and this is another line / each separated from the next with / a solidus set with space / on either side.”
  - derp_dee_derp 7y ago
    The whole issue being discussed is that HN made a terrible design desicion when they implemented quotes and code styling for Mobile.