A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.

  • div
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    61 year ago

    Oh, nice! So I set the quote in between the greater then and less then symbols and it will show the quote? That is pretty cool. Thank you.

    • jennraeross
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      1 year ago

      Not quite I think. I believe this uses markdown, which just uses the > at the beginning of a line

      > This is a quote

      should become

      This is a quote

      And if you need more lines, you just keep symboling

      > 1
      > 2
      > 3

      1
      2
      3

        • cwagner
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          331 year ago

          This never changed for those of us who used old reddit ;)

          • FaceDeer
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            101 year ago

            I had no idea it was different for new Reddit, I never touched that interface except to hurriedly find my preferences and set them back to Old. :)

          • RosalynKirk
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            11 year ago

            Well it did because everyone on old Reddit already knew how to use it LOL

      • rideranton
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        And I believe you can do a multi line quote with 3:

        >>> hello darkness my old friend
        I’ve come to speak with you again
        More
        Lines

        hello darkness my old friend
        I’ve come to speak with you again
        More
        Lines

        Unless I’m wrong and this isn’t actually working

        Hmm well that looks like it worked too well

        > test
        With
        Several
        Lines

        test
        With
        Several
        Lines

        • cwagner
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          101 year ago

          Nah, multi-line is just

          > line 1
          line 2
          line 3
          
          

          line 1
          line 2
          line 3

          You only need multiple > if you want paragraphs:

          > paragraph 1
          
          > paragraph 2
          
          

          paragraph 1

          paragraph 2