On: Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

[mst]

I think mostly people forget that > works and that therefore you can do

> quotes like this

since it's markdown - often you get commentish things that allow limited HTML plus indented code blocks, and people get used to using the latter as the only thing that works everywhere

[ScottBurson → mst]

'>' doesn't "work"; it doesn't do anything on HN. It's just a convention that readers recognize as indicating quotation.

HN does not use Markdown.

[DanBC → ScottBurson]

At least ">" doesn't break anything.

    Pre is broken on mobile, forcing users to scroll a horizontal line which is incredibly annoying if it's a long line.

Here's a screen shot: http://imgur.com/Ru56wMK

And pre with very long unbroken lines is even worse.

[ScottBurson → DanBC]

I wasn't expressing a value judgment, just trying to explain how HN works.

I agree with you that it's annoying when people post long indented lines.

[choosername → DanBC]

it can be touch-scrolled here, there just aren't scroll bars. Took me a while to find, but maybe your browser is buggy, eve.

[krapp → ScottBurson]

I noticed people were doing this and wrote a userscript a while ago to make it work. I kind of wish HN supported it.

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/7a21c0187fedd6f47e7c

[mintplant → krapp]

I wrote in a while ago to ask that it be officially supported, but apparently that would break something that HN's spam filter relies on.