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Aaron Janse aaron at ajanse.me
Sun May 17 10:48:29 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` > I think the person/people who was/were really pushing hard for this were > really invested in a relatively complicated form of it which was > infinitely nestable, so it could be used to represent e.g. deep comment > threads, and I wasn't super keen on that idea. Hehe, that person was me. Yep, I've been thinking about it more, and Iagree with you. I think it would be just fine to have comments withoutnesting. Going out of our way to support deep comment threads wouldhelp proxies while distracting from the high-value, original contentthat attracts people (or at least me) to gopher & gemini in the frstplace. > As a purely optional line-type with no special semantics, acting just as > a styling hint, the way unordered item lists are currently implemented, > I think I'm actually fairly unopposed to adding this. Yay! > Of course it would, like everything else, be strictly line-based, so > quoting multi-paragraph content might not format the way people > expect... Hmm, we could just use multiple quotes, right? One per paragraph? ~ Aaron