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Except *asterisks* doesn't **bold**, it _emphasizes_. :) Edit: Aha! I think I see what happened here, HN formatting. :)
by mottosso 6y ago
Except *asterisks* doesn't **bold**, it _emphasizes_. :) Edit: Aha! I think I see what happened here, HN formatting. :)
- webmaven 6y ago> Edit: Aha! I think I see what happened here, HN formatting. :) I may be in the minority here, but I wish HN supported just a bit more formatting (such as bolding/strong) than it currently does. I also wish the current formatting was a bit more aggressive in recovering from obvious errors, for example emphasis should probably be closed at the end of a block like a paragraph, rather than making the whole rest of a comment emphasized when someone forgets to add or accidentally deletes a closing asterisk.
- julianlam 6y agoHah! Yes, HN seems to have eaten a pair of asterisks. In any case, double-asterisks is bold in my mind, even if Slack seems to think otherwise.