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Raganork posted...

What sort of janky-ass formatting are you using?

The awkward compromise format I've been forced into using because GameFAQs keeps constantly breaking line spacing.

Originally the site allowed for easy spacing between the body of text and your sig line, but that was ruined once they separated signatures out of the text field and make them an automatic attachment. Then I switched to using <br> to make the space, until they fucked that up as well. For a while a simple <P> worked, then I eventually had to start using <P></P><P></P> to do it.

Now I'm apparently going to be switching to using italics with a space (so basically {I} {/I}{I} {/I}, except with brackets), because that still seems to work (though I'm sure they'll fuck that up eventually as well). Except now I also have to add it between separate sections as well, because it seems like the board is now incapable of seeing anything resembling a double line break without deleting the excess.

(so on a site where character limits are a thing, now every post I make is likely going to have at least 16-32 worthless extra characters forced into it)

Though on the plus side, I suppose all of these code updates have led to wonderful site-wide advances, like all of the shitty features I don't actually use, and style formatting that I've been deliberately blocking for years now. Oh, and I suppose it apparently makes the site look better on mobile, except I wouldn't know because it will be a cold day in hell before I ever actually come to this site on anything resembling a smart phone.



Raganork posted...

See, this is why we stopped putting two spaces after punctuation back in '70s <_<

I still do it. You just never notice because the site automatically deletes out the second space.


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