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Allow using <br> tags when commenting

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I suggest to allow <br> tags when commenting in a threaded comment.

In the current situation only separate passages are allowed:

Passage_1

Passage_2

<br> tags improve accessibility by allowing to split passages into sub passages (which is good with very long passages of say 100 words);

Passage 3:

sub_passage_3_1
sub_passage_3_2

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Canina‭ wrote about 3 years ago · edited about 3 years ago

Why? What problem does this solve? Although Markdown line breaks don't work in comments, certainly paragraphs are already possible.

Please note that I'm not saying that what you propose is necessarily a bad idea; I just don't see the benefit, so consider this an invitation to edit the post in such a way that it convinces me that having this implemented would be the best thing since the invention of pre-sliced bread.

deleted user wrote about 3 years ago

It solves the problem of not being able to split a long passage into sub-passages easily.

If it's not a problem for you that's fine, but for at least one person in the entire universe it is.

hkotsubo‭ wrote about 3 years ago

We can split passages by adding two line breaks between sentences. So if I press ENTER twice...

...it creates a new paragraph, like this :-)

A <br> will add a new line, but not a new paragraph (less spacing between lines, which means it'll be "less split" than paragraphs).

deleted user wrote about 3 years ago

hkotsubo‭ I know that, as you could read I used that option in my above comment and in many other comments (some I wrote to you in the last 48 hours) so I assume that you meant to say it generally for future readers --- okay, but it's not what I talk about in this thread and IMO shouldn't be discussed here.

I didn't say that <br> will add a new paragraphs, of course it won't.

hkotsubo‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Sorry for not making my point clear: I don't see what <br> can do that the current way (ENTER twice) can't. Perhaps you should edit the question and make that clear.

deleted user wrote about 3 years ago

hkotsubo‭

You are confusing a passage with a sub-passage, I have edited to explain.