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I’m sure people have asked this before, but would HN ever add a little more rich-text? Even just bullet points and indents might be nice.

• slater 2y ago
  And maybe also make new lines in the comment box translate to new lines in the resulting comment...? :D
  • dang 2y ago
    That's actually a really good point. I've never looked into that, I just took it for granted that to get a line break on HN you need two consecutive newline chars. I guess the thing to do would be to look at all (well, lots of) comments that have single newlines and see what would break if they were rendered as actual newlines.
    • Matheus28 2y ago
      Could be applied to all comments made after a certain future date. That way nothing in the past is poorly formatted
      • slater 2y ago
        Or just brute-force it with string_replace of all "\n" with "</p>\n<p>" and then remove all the empty "<p></p>". (why yes, i am a PHP guy, why do you ask?)
• dang 2y ago
  Maybe. I'm paranoid about the unintended cost of improvements, but it's not an absolute position.