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See also https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1169877007045296128 https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1169877007045296128. I was prompted the twitter lin
by techolic 7y ago
See also https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1169877007045296128 https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1169877007045296128. I was prompted the twitter link has been submitted but wasn't able to find it.
Edit: And apologies for using unicode ㊷ in the title, the ascii 42 was removed from the title after initial submission.
- tspiteri 7y agoHow about "Forty-two"?
- benologist 7y agoJust page @dang because this is a filtering thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
- yodon 7y agoPlease don't use code formatting for quotes. It makes the text unreadable on mobile.
- jacquesm 7y agoPlease don't criticize others for using features of the website you are visiting. If you bring a keyhole to view a landscape you won't get the full experience either. Rendering pages is a matter that should be solved by the client.
- snazz 7y agoIt seems to be readable on iOS Safari. Scrolling sideways works fine. Worse than a regular quote, but not actually that bad. It is a client issue if it’s more broken than that.
- rococode 7y agoSame on Android Firefox, although it is a bit annoying to have to scroll back and forth to read multi-line quotes formatted like this.
- tonmoy 7y agoText after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
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- saagarjha 7y agoI don't see what the issue is with reminding people to be considerate of those who are browsing on mobile. Unfortunately, the latter group is also usually the ones with the least ability to actual solve their rendering problems.
- Dylan16807 7y agoIt's very much the website's fault that it uses an awkwardly scrolling span that's much smaller than the viewport.
- techolic 7y agoInteresting, I didn't even think of changing to "Forty-two".
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoYou thought of using an obscure Unicode character before you thought of spelling it out? Well the good news is that you really do belong here on Hacker News :-)
- techolic 7y agoI seemed to be focusing on replacing 42 with a visual equivalence, I even started with ４２ then felt it looked quite ugly.
- bityard 7y agoOr "The Number 42..."
- hprotagonist 7y agoI spent a few seconds wondering if the 'circle-around-a-' was a ring operator of which I was previously unaware ...
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y agoI spent a while trying to work out if 42 in-a-circle was some kind of operator like 42! (factorial) or the like, because those three large numbers, cubed, didn't seem to refer to anything two-digit.
- sp332 7y agoThe title is sanitized on first submission, but you can edit the title afterward and put it back in. This works with some punctuation that gets cleaned out too.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've switched the URL from https://math.mit.edu/~drew/ https://math.mit.edu/~drew/ and removed the housing from 42 above.
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- saagarjha 7y agoHave you considered surfacing how titles will be changed when they're posted?
- dang 7y agoI'm not sure I understand your question, but we've posted countless times about this and are happy to answer about specific cases. You can find a lot of information via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20title&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and similar searches.
- benologist 7y agoDuring the submission process where the form say a title is too long you could also be displaying how any transformations will affect it.
- saagarjha 7y agoYup, basically this. Another idea would be to add a "please review this title that Hacker News won't let me submit with" button that would get these kinds of things in front of you sooner.
- dang 7y agoThat shows up as soon as the submission is created, and there's an 'edit' link if you need to change it. Just don't change it in ways that break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- gerdesj 7y agoI've just installed ttf-code2000 just so I could see that character in your comment!