When was the last time you were upset that an HN comment couldn't be written with 36pt Papyrus in green to indicate how important it is?
People who depend on the typeface, size and color to convey essential meaning end up communicating poorly.
Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix
by ubermonkey on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:22PM
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Plaintext is part of the agreement at HN, so that's an irrelevant question.
Plaintext bigots love to assert that there's no communicative value in formatted or colored text, but that doesn't make it true.
The world has moved on. This argument was litigated and lost by the plaintext partisans when Clinton was president.
This is an objectively ridiculous statement.
A person using a modern email client can confine themselves to a single font and color, or they can use formatting. They can read plaintext mails, and they can read complex emails.
Being flexible > being dogmatic about other people communicate.