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by pizza234 3099 days ago
What's rendered weird specifically, on your system?

I'm always very puzzled when I have to do HN quoting/bullet points, so I thought 80-columns code would fit well (evidently, it doesn't).

I also wonder why HN doesn't improve formatting, which has at least a couple of very common problems (the mentioned code and bullet points rendering).

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When you're on mobile it's almost impossible to read.
On my mobile, the text is cut off after the 25th character on each line and the browser doesn't render a horizontal scrollbar preventing me from seeing the right half of each line.

It would be nice if MIME format=flowed was a thing for quoted text on web pages that otherwise would be hard-wrapped.

Unreadable on iPhone and potentially other mobile devices.
When you indent the text by two spaces it renders as a pre block.

On mobile this will mean only about 35 columns are visible at once.

Firefox on iPad: needed to scroll right to left
it's formatted as code, which is slightly weird but does not really decrease legibility for me.