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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Feature request: single line breaks (yiffit.net)
submitted 2 years ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
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Jerboa currently ignores single line breaks. I think single line breaks should be implemented as the only other alternative is double line breaks which are not always appropriate.

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[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thank you for the explanation. Good to know single line breaks are possible. However, other web services allow the user to use a single line break and it's displayed in the same way. While you give a good technical reason why it is this way, I'm not convinced it's the most user friendly approach.

[–] andscape@feddit.it 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which other web services support Markdown formatting and also single line breaks? Reddit, for example, didn't...

Since AFAIK the main reason for this choice in standard Markdown was to make the raw .md files more readable, I can see how this isn't necessary in Lemmy. I still see two reasons not to change this though:

  • Effort: forking and maintaining a markdown rendering library just for lemmy would take a ton of effort for a pretty small usability improvement. The dev team is already small and overloaded with work, this doesn't seem like a good use of their time.
  • Consistency: each website having its own flavor of Markdown syntax would be pretty chaotic for users. Right now you can learn basic Markdown once and use it on Reddit, Lemmy, Github, etc. If every website did it their own way you'd have to remember all the little differences, it would get messy.
[–] soyagi@yiffit.net 0 points 2 years ago

I wasn't talking about markdown language. I was talking about the end user experience. In my email client for example, I can write a single line break and it is formatted as such. The end user shouldn't have to know/worry/care about the underlying technology; the technology should work to meet their needs.

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like this is asking Jerboa to break a standard.
Markdown is a universal standard, it's what makes webpages look like they do, minus the CSS.

[–] andscape@feddit.it 4 points 2 years ago

Agreed, standards are what make the Fediverse possible. Rendering posts from other platforms is already messy: we've all seen the posts coming from Mastodon where the title is the whole body of the post, cut at the character limit. If Lemmy starts doing its own Markdown flavor it would further degrade the integration with other Fediverse platforms.