Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
by tripzilch on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:56PM
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The code blocks sometimes also cause horizontal scrollbars on desktop. And all they have to do is add one CSS rule (white-space:pre-wrap).
But apparently there's people who dislike wrapping code so much, that it's worth messing up the layout of a whole discussion even if only one comment has code in it (or by accident, even). Personally, I dislike horizontal scrolling much stronger (and I actually mildly prefer wrapping code, but that's taste, the horizontal scrolling is a big annoyance).
Other than that I like the minimalism. I even think the lack of automatically quoting the parent comment is a good thing, as it forces the user to think about the part of the parent they want to quote instead of wholesale quoting it all as the lazy option. If auto-quoting existed the comments would be 40% quotes of each other, and much harder to read.