Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why

Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by colanderman on Sunday May 05, 2019 @11:06AM (#19833167)

FYI: quoting material like that is impossible to read on mobile because it does not wrap. Please just use ">" as an quotation marker.

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by WillPostForFood on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:17PM (#19833501)

FYI: quoting material like that is impossible to read on mobile because it does not wrap. Please just use ">" as an quotation marker.

or wrap it in * to italicize

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by giancarlostoro on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:32PM (#19833569)

I kinda wish HN could fix that... We hear this all the time and yet its still broken. They add other things to HN but a subtle bug fix would be welcomed.

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by nkurz on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:04PM (#19833447)

I'm aware, and consciously chose this because in this case I thought that preformatted was clearer. But perhaps I'm wrong. What percentage of people use mobile for HN? Is there a reasonable column width that works for 95% of them?

Edit: OK, I just looked at it on a phone. Yes, it looks bad, and that the lines would have to be about half the length to be readable. Too late to edit this one, but I'll try to switch to italics or '>' in the future for everything except for code samples.

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by Normal_gaussian on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:09PM (#19833464)

I get 26 characters portrait, 40 landscape.

I almost exclusively read HN on mobile, occasionally emailing things to myself to do on a desktop/laptop later.

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by giancarlostoro on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:33PM (#19833576)

On the other hand reader mode for FireFox temporarily fixes the bug.

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by mikeash on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:06PM (#19833456)

I’d wager it’s a pretty high percentage. HN works great on mobile aside from this. There’s no reasonable column width, just use quotes for quotes.

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by hunter2_ on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:10PM (#19833467)

Hard-wrapping to some column width only ever really works when you know the physical width of the screen/paper. Otherwise, dynamic soft wrapping.

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by hollerith on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:10PM (#19833470)

I hate preformatted text in HN comments (and I never even read HN on mobile).

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by mrb on Sunday May 05, 2019 @01:13PM (#19833769)

It's possible to read on mobile. It may not wrap but you can scroll it horizontally (Chrome on Android)

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Re:Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and... by spinach on Sunday May 05, 2019 @12:34PM (#19833586)

Not "impossible", you just have to scroll horizontally (I read it on my mobile device).

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