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by dylanha 663 days ago
I thought the point of ASCII art was that it could be exported into Notepad. is the website mainly for aesthetics/art as opposed to inserting diagrams into READMEs now?
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> I thought the point of ASCII art was that it could be exported into Notepad.

I don't think that's ever been the point of ASCII art. It's just art made with ASCII characters, that's it.

Yes this website is mainly for aesthetics and art. I will however add a feature that will generate the relevant chars / line breaks of a given still image, so that it can be exported to notepad.
When would you expect to put a video of a diagram into a readme file?
Any damn time I want, notepad is the next best thing to freedom that we have!