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[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

FYI, if you use code format instead of the quote, the entire text in the box is displayed in one line, so people reading it have to scroll the tiny box horizontally - and in my case when I'm trying to do that on desktop, the scroll bar obscures most of the text:

cropped screenshot of the comment above, showing the quote rendered unreadable because of the scroll bar obscuring it

with quote formatting the text wraps lines when necessary:

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uh oh. That wasn't intended.

I removed the extra spaces between angle bracket and the first word. Is it better now?

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

yup! that did the job for me.