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Comment by 🚀 skyjake

Re: "suggestion: use 🔗 for user-provided links instead of m-dash"

In: s/Bubble-Issues

The idea with the em dash was to act primarily as indentation in an unobtrusive way. I feel like inserting an Emoji/symbol here will add to the noise a bit too much. There already is quite a few symbols in use.

Could always experiment, though, or even make it a user option at some point.

🚀 skyjake

May 24 · 7 months ago

5 Later Comments ↓

👤 AnoikisNomads · 2023-05-24 at 19:44:

fair enough. I did read about the added em-dash in the update notes and was still surprised to see one when I linked something. Might just be me but I was wondering what the dash was and whether or not I screwed up my link

🐐 satch · 2023-05-24 at 21:12:

The dash seems weird to me too 🤷 just saying

I’m used to there being something both before and after a dash.

🚀 skyjake · 2023-05-25 at 03:25:

They are dynamically added so I can change them easily. Just need something that differentiates links inside content from UI links in a clean way.

👤 AnoikisNomads · 2023-05-25 at 04:40:

@skyjake expanding on the initial idea. maybe a glyph from the unicode "arrows" page would fit, although I believe some might be extra wide.

— HTML link to the Unicode rrows page

🍵 michaelnordmeyer · 2023-05-25 at 18:26:

What about an arrow, which differs from the normal double arrow? Like

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(Edit: I should have read to the end first)

Original Post

🌒 s/Bubble-Issues

there doesn't seem to be an official unicode glyph for external links (there was a proposabl but it was rejected) but the chain symbol might carry the message?

💬 AnoikisNomads · 6 comments · May 24 · 7 months ago · #feature