[quietbritishjim]

People abuse the code formatting for block quote. It looks bad on mobile, but it also looks bad on desktop because it's a fixed width Font, which is not what you want for a quote. The solution is not to change the style – it's for people to stop using code style for quotes! (The style does actually seem to have changed on mobile in the last year or so: I think it wraps now, whereas I think it used to have a horizontal scroll bar.)

To quote something else, manually insert a greater than symbol at the start of every quoted paragraph,

> Like this

Which obviously doesn't indent nicely but is perfectly clear, and works well with HN's low formatting style.