Comment by casperdewith on 22/03/2022 at 07:58 UTC

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View submission: Changelog: Post insights, relevance experiments, and mod notes

Two things.

One is: why did ‘9 people are here! 2 people are typing **this very instant**! 3 **new comments**! RIGHT NOW!’ ever get implemented? For ‘engagement’? I hate it.

The other is: are you planning on implementing proper Markdown support for Android? The current implemetation is a colossal pain in my typographical butt. The issues I’ve encountered:

• Line breaks don’t render.
• Horizontal rules don’t render.
• Italic text doesn’t use the proper italic font – instead, it shears the text to make it seem italic. This is called ‘oblique’ and widely frown upon by today’s standards.
• Bold text is not real bold text, but artificial thiccening of the letterforms. This is also ugly, and also frowned upon.
• Indentation of lists. Instead of indenting an entire block of text and placing a bullet or number in the margin (how it’s supposed to be, and how HTML does it), the app just places a bullet icon before the text and treats it as a paragraph with no indentation. It’s a makeshift solution and it looks ugly. Nested lists are especially nightmares.

Then two more things:

• The font on the mobile app is Roboto, the default Android sans. It looks bland – one font for the entire app. Why not IBM Plex Sans and Noto Sans, like on desktop Reddit?
• Could we please get a monospaced font in the text editor? That would be convenient for Markdown reasons. Furthermore, syntax highlighting would be fantastic, but this is a low-priority issue for me.

I hope you understand my displeasure with the current state of mobile Reddit, and I hope you are willing to fix it. I’m happy to discuss about this, and answer any questions you might have.

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