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Meta-response, but what is with the carriage return after every sentence, (and sometimes in the middle)? It's a jarring way to write.
by seneca 5y ago
Meta-response, but what is with the carriage return after every sentence, (and sometimes in the middle)? It's a jarring way to write.
- eric4smith 5y agoHaha good point. I learned to do it so it’s easier for people to read instead of a wall of text. People usually get bored with a wall of text. My sentences are longer on desktop - but I was writing on mobile now.
- polynomial 5y agoI am really glad not everybody does this
- mikestew 5y agoI learned to do it so it’s easier for people to read instead of a wall of text. There's a new technology call "paragraphs" that a lot of people are using these days. I don't know that it'll catch on long-term, but it might be a worthy middle- road between walls of text and unnecessary line feeds.
- sn41 5y agoReminded me of good-old Troff pages.
- AznHisoka 5y agoIt makes it easier to read. I don't like reading big paragraphs and text that span all the way across the screen. I wished more people was like OP.
- saiojd 5y agoIn my opinion it's an instinctive response to HN's line spacing being too low, and paragraph width being too high. But That being said, the people here are disproportionally used to starting at packed lined of code so the problem doesn't get picked up.