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To add some meta irony to my previous post: as you can see in my previous post the formatting got all mangled. The new-lines (enters) that I typed got ignored upon posting. I cannot think of any good reason for that "functionality" from a user perspective?

Also I can't edit that post anymore to fix it.

And to think that HN is an example of relatively good software that seems un-bloated, super stable, fast and seems to always work :P



> I cannot think of any good reason for that "functionality" from a user perspective?

Markdown ignores single return because people used it to manually wrap their plain text but HTML can wrap automatically on the fly.

Add two spaces before the return to make a line break `<br>`. Two returns in a row start a new paragraph `<p>`.


Hacker News does not use Markdown. Double space at end of line does not work, but double newline is a paragraph separator.




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