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Comment by seneca | Hacker News Reader

Meta-response, but what is with the carriage return after every sentence, (and sometimes in the middle)? It's a jarring way to write.

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Haha good point. I learned to do it so it’s easier for people to read instead of a wall of text.

People usually get bored with a wall of text.

My sentences are longer on desktop - but I was writing on mobile now.

I am

really glad

not everybody does this

Technically their text's line breaks are at the end of finished sentences. I don't write as staggered but after 20 years out of school I've also shifted toward writing mostly in bullet points.

I have separated

the sentences

that were in

the paragraph

I learned to do it so it’s easier for people to read instead of a wall of text.

There's a new technology call "paragraphs" that a lot of people are using these days. I don't know that it'll catch on long-term, but it might be a worthy middle-

road

between walls of text

and unnecessary line feeds.

It makes it easier to read. I don't like reading big paragraphs and text that span all the way across the screen. I wished more people was like OP.

In my opinion it's an instinctive response to HN's line spacing being too low, and paragraph width being too high. But That being said, the people here are disproportionally used to starting at packed lined of code so the problem doesn't get picked up.

Reminded me of good-old Troff pages.

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