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by fastball 2212 days ago
Seems like it might be better to pressure HN to fix a clear bug by continuing to use this formatting though.
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andreareina 2212 days ago
Arguably the bug isn't the rendering of code blocks, but using them to delineate quotes.
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BCM43 2212 days ago
Maybe the bug is not having blockquotes, something that people clearly want? We're seeing a desire path of feature use.
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andreareina 2212 days ago
Maybe! I shouldn't have called user behavior a bug, and I'm sympathetic to the desire path argument, but it would hold more water if code-blocks-as-quotes didn't come with such an accessibility malus, especially given the common convention of indicating quoted content with >

I do want real blockquotes, but I can work around their lack.

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detaro 2212 days ago
> italic text with > prefix works quite well?

IMHO.

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