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HN’s lack of inline links is one of its worst features, and comments with large numbers of links are unbearable. Fortunately, longform HN comments are rare. Gem
by om2 5y ago
HN’s lack of inline links is one of its worst features, and comments with large numbers of links are unbearable. Fortunately, longform HN comments are rare. Gemini also sounds more limited than even HN comments, because here you can put a URL like http://example.com http://example.com inline and it works fine, you just can’t replace the URL with a custom label. In Gemini, it’s more literal than that - a link must be on its own line, not in the middle of a paragraph.
- gerikson 5y agoAuthor of linked post here. I've noticed that at least in the client I use (amfora) URI are not treated any differently from text and the client can insert a line break in the middle of them, making selecting the URI to paste it elsewhere hard. This is not the client's fault btw, it's part of the spec. Anything not preceded by the magic characters '=>', '#', '`' or '>' is just treated literally.