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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by pizza234 on Sunday December 31, 2017 @06:52AM (#16040254)
What's rendered weird specifically, on your system?

I'm always very puzzled when I have to do HN quoting/bullet points, so I thought 80-columns code would fit well (evidently, it doesn't).

I also wonder why HN doesn't improve formatting, which has at least a couple of very common problems (the mentioned code and bullet points rendering).

Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by aidos on Sunday December 31, 2017 @07:43AM (#16040375)
When you're on mobile it's almost impossible to read.
Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by u801e on Sunday December 31, 2017 @03:05PM (#16042570)
On my mobile, the text is cut off after the 25th character on each line and the browser doesn't render a horizontal scrollbar preventing me from seeing the right half of each line.

It would be nice if MIME format=flowed was a thing for quoted text on web pages that otherwise would be hard-wrapped.

Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by mratzloff on Sunday December 31, 2017 @07:46AM (#16040377)
Unreadable on iPhone and potentially other mobile devices.
Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by emacsgifs on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:55AM (#16068883)
When you indent the text by two spaces it renders as a pre block.

On mobile this will mean only about 35 columns are visible at once.

Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by themark on Sunday December 31, 2017 @10:32AM (#16040915)
Firefox on iPad: needed to scroll right to left
Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by bryanrasmussen on Sunday December 31, 2017 @10:09AM (#16040820)
it's formatted as code, which is slightly weird but does not really decrease legibility for me.