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Comment by austenallred | Hacker News Reader

@dang/HN team: Considering how often snippets are used on HN, is there another way to format those on mobile?

Thanks for all you do!

The solution is for users to not use monospaced, pre-formatted text for things other than code snippets.

I think monospaced should be like

``` monospaced ```

And the four-space/tab indentation should denote

    a quote

But that's just me.

I'm a fan of > for quotes, plus it's less likely to have people used to four spaces for code suddenly getting quotes instead

If users have to work around server errors, it's not a solution.

It's not a server error, it's a user error. Stop using monospace for things that don't need it.