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Re:The joy of concurrent logic programming by Twisol on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:52AM (#29141087)
What's wrong with the formatting? Plain text has a lot going for it. (I remember when most/all GameFAQs guides were text files just like this -- not to mention the Super Metroid guide [0] that manually justified every paragraph via word choice.)

[0] https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...

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Re:The joy of concurrent logic programming by cylon13 on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:58AM (#29141147)
On mobile it looks terrible. The lines will wrap and then a few words later there’s a forced line break.
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Re:The joy of concurrent logic programming by Twisol on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:03PM (#29141200)
That's a reasonable criticism. It works better in Reader View (because you can scale the font down, at least in Firefox), but I have to rotate to landscape as well.
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Re:The joy of concurrent logic programming by matheusmoreira on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:24PM (#29141417)
Yeah. GameFAQs guides had perfect usability. Now they're multipage HTML documents and searching is impossible. Sometimes the "guide" consists of nothing but YouTube links.
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Re:The joy of concurrent logic programming by avgcorrection on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:47PM (#29141660)
> What's wrong with the formatting?

It messes up Firefox reader mode.

I myself have gotten complaints from other people when using linebreaks in Github comments because their device renders them.

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