On the hideousness of mobile Reddit Markdown
https://www.reddit.com/r/test/comments/u4ywdo/on_the_hideousness_of_mobile_reddit_markdown/
created by casperdewith on 16/04/2022 at 14:25 UTC
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Haikus
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my dearest line breaks
has Reddit forgotten you?
it’s all mobile’s fault
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safely surrounded
by horizontal rules, but
mobile ignores them
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Lists
- Suppose I have a bullet point, but it’s a long sentence. Like, really long. So long, in fact, that it overflows to the next line. *Astonishing*. What a feat.
- As my eyes glide across the paragraph, a curious detail stands out. Why is the entire paragraph not indented? Only a bullet point character has been added on the first line – nothing more. * But wait, what is this? A new level of depth? A nested list? Unheard-of! But it’s invisible on mobile – all bullet points look alike. * I stand pondering in amazement. What could the origin be of this grim style mistake? Could a developer – or a prospective developer – have thought `margin-left` was needless to implement? And why would only *mobile Reddit* carry the burden of this oddity? * More details jump out as I proceed my reading. Why are the italics not *real* italics? **Why?** Slanting and italicising are not equivalent! Surely *some* intern would’ve been aware of this. * Neither is naïvely thickening the stroke of a letter a valid substitute for bold-face! **How difficult could it be to implement it correctly?** * Man. Reading all this exhausts my eyes. Zero leading – it suffocates the text. Why not add some line height? And change the typeface while you’re at it. **Why is mobile Reddit so different from desktop Reddit?**
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It is shameful how typography is so neglected on mobile. But not only that – this neglect *itself* is also neglected by Reddit[1]. And *this* neglect too is something the admins never talk about. Have a look on r/reddit.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/tjoiax/comment/i1mxfb7/?utm_medium=fuckmobilereddit&context=3
Yet on numerous other comments, the first thing they reply: *we hear you*. But do you *listen*?
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