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Fix Hacker News word breaks

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You may have noticed that word breaks are messed up on Hacker News today. This new CSS style in https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css is what's causing the problem:

  .comment { font-family:Verdana; font-size:  9pt; word-break: break-all; }

Hopefully this style will be removed soon, but in the meantime, here is a quick fix:

http://userstyles.org/styles/96360/fix-hacker-news-word-breaks

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I'm familiar with those guidelines, and I did send an email to info@ycombinator.com. Sorry I forgot to mention that in the post.

The purpose of this post was not to notify the HN team about the problem, but to give HN readers a quick and easy way to work around the problem temporarily with the userstyle.

I've mentioned this issue here https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/48

Whoops.

Happens to the best of us!

And I see you've fixed it already - fast work, thanks! :-)

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