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by dfischer 5568 days ago
Usability wise, it makes a lot more sense to have "enter" be a new line. That's how it works in any textarea and document. We're trained to naturally expect that. Enter to submit only makes sense on one line inputs. Anything that resembles a text area should have shift + enter to submit(or control + enter). This is most intuitive.
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>Usability wise, it makes a lot more sense to have "enter" be a new line.

I disagree. The paradigm they're using here isn't that of word processing a document, but rather quick text conversations. In pretty much every chat/IM program I've ever used, "enter" == "send", and shift+enter == newline.

Exactly! Dow you want the conversations to be one liners (witty or shallow) OR do you want people to have meaningful conversations?

Assumption: You cannot always have meaningful conversation with one liners.