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ah yes c/world@lemmy.world
also why are you typing in codeblocks
It's also pretentious. Just saying lol
Do you know of another way to preserve white space?
Unless you're typing code why is it important?
Yes, but reading this on moblie is complete and utter ass. Rule 1 of formatting, don't force others to adhere to your formatting style.
I find it amusing, thank you
It's less readable on mobile clients because code blocks don't linebreak automatically. I have to side-scroll your comments to read them in full, so the only feeling I get from your experiment is slight annoyance.
Raw text preserves whitespaces, so if I wanted them, I'd just show that instead. I don't get it.
And it's still pretentious AF lol
Why is it pretentious?
The whole air of " I know what's best for you and you don't"
And what if I found this useful? Wouldn't you be deciding for me what's best?
I'm special and because of that my comments need to look different than everyone elseFurthermore I'm doing this for reasons you won't fully understand because I'm cooler than youIt seriously comes across like some autist green text from 4chan. Imagine if you had a buddy that only conversed in Olde English. You still understand them but Jesus Christ.
Oh, I get it. You're just mad.
Never mind, then.
Lol you realize we are on The Internet right? They can do them I'm simply stating it's dumb AF. Anyways, you do you too.
Can your web browser zoom the text out?
I'm not a programmer, but I think I see what you're trying to do. I have ADHD and less-than-ideal eyesight. This is easier to read, comprehension-wise, in that I'm not getting "lost" in the text and losing my place and having to re-read paragraphs; but the font you're using is a little blurrier than the default (I think it's the serifs) and is a little more difficult for me to physically read. Maybe increasing the font size or changing to a different font would work better?
The 80-column width, as some have pointed out, can't really be counted on, unfortunately. But I think this is neat. Reminds me of greentext.
I might try something like this in my own notes for work.
What is greentext?
In what way do you consider it easier to read raw HTML than it is to read properly-formatted text? This text displays all of its tags on kbin and it's a nightmare to read.
Meanwhile I'm here on dark mode and none of you have any white space so it clearly doesn't work
Why are you wanting to preserve white space in your comments? Maybe it's just how it shows up on my screen, but I'm not seeing or understanding why or what the usage was in your initial comment here, or what the benefit was.
To be clear, I'm not judging or anything, especially since it's not like you're hurting anyone! Ultimately, you do yo thang! I'm just curious and interested to understand where you're coming from. Is it just for funsies?
Okay how did you make the text Like that?
Start and stop the message with three backticks on a line on their own:
```
This stuff gets rendered in fixed width with preserved whitespace.
```