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Comment by hliyan | Hacker News Reader

I know this comes from the Github team, but I'm not sure if I want to grant this permission:

  Delete repositories

  Ability to delete any adminable repository

  This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.

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Please don't use code blocks for quoting text until HN finally fixes their css on mobile.

> Delete repositories

> Ability to delete any adminable repository

> This application will be able to delete any repository to which you have admin rights.

You can inject your own CSS on Firefox mobile. It's also great for getting rid of popups and paywalls.

let's not go back on works-on-IE-5 era. sites should work on the browsers that people use, not the other way around. i don't think it's fair that you got downvoted, though, your intention was good, you provided a solution.

But I want HN code snippets to look like code because sometimes they're used for code.

This does not appear to be true on iOS? If it is...how?

That's because Firefox for iOS is really just a skin around Safari's WebKit-based engine, because Apple plays the evil gatekeeper on their app store and doesn't allow Firefox to use their own rendering engine. (Chrome on iOS is also effectively just a Safari wrapper.)

It's one of the many reasons I think iOS is a horrible choice for a privacy-conscious user.

Firefox for Android supports extensions.

Seems like it might be better to pressure HN to fix a clear bug by continuing to use this formatting though.

Arguably the bug isn't the rendering of code blocks, but using them to delineate quotes.

Maybe the bug is not having blockquotes, something that people clearly want? We're seeing a desire path of feature use.

Maybe! I shouldn't have called user behavior a bug, and I'm sympathetic to the desire path argument, but it would hold more water if code-blocks-as-quotes didn't come with such an accessibility malus, especially given the common convention of indicating quoted content with >

I do want real blockquotes, but I can work around their lack.

> italic text with > prefix works quite well?

IMHO.

I'm sure some teachers may want to delete tests/assignments in the case of cheating(especially in the case of stuff like "take home tests").

Obviously you'd probably have it saved on your computer, but this may mitigate / in some instances stop it.

I'd still say its a bit sketchy, but it makes sense in context of the everyday CS student.

Is this limited to a particular organization or complete account?

I believe it applies to organizations only after you explicitly grant access to those organizations. Otherwise it's just your private repos I guess.

One solution could be to create a github organisation to use with this feature, and grant the permissions for that org instead of your personal account.

These permissions are likely for a UI to delete your lessons.

And you should have a local working backup

I suppose you can create a special teacher account

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