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Re:Gmail Services Global Outage by jessaustin on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @08:57AM (#19026269)
Why not use italics instead? How does the ">" help? You can put it at the beginning of the paragraph, but lines get re-flowed so you can't put it at the beginning of lines.
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Re:Gmail Services Global Outage by matt4077 on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:11AM (#19026362)
The > was the original (?) convention for email.

But seriously HN should just allow basic quotes. And, while they are at it, increase the size of voting arrows to make it possible to reliably hit them on mobile. I get it’s somewhat nice to have a site that does not constantly redesign everything, but pretending you lost the password for the server is just overdoing it in the opposite direction.

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Re:Gmail Services Global Outage by jessriedel on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:58AM (#19027351)
> increase the size of voting arrows to make it possible to reliably hit them on mobile

I was left satisfied when they added the unvote/undown buttons. I only miss on my first try about 10% of the time :)

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Re:Gmail Services Global Outage by mikelward on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:41AM (#19027173)
It took me two attempts to upvote this comment. :)

At least I didn't accidentally Flag something today.

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