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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Left hand number = # of exclamation points I type to the right of it

Test is to see if the number of exclamation points gets abbreviated on desktop site or mobile app

1 !

2 !!

3 !!!

4 !!!!

5 !!!!!

6 !!!!!!

7 !!!!!!!

8 !!!!!!!!

9 !!!!!!!!!

10 !!!!!!!!!!

Test to see if other punctuation behaves the same:

1 ?

2 ??

3 ???

4 ????

5 ?????

6 ??????

7 ???????

8 ????????

9 ?????????

10 ??????????

1 .

2 ..

3 …

4 ….

5 …..

6 ……

7 …….

8 ……..

9 ………

10 ……….

Hopefully I didn’t miscount while typing

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm on oldsh.itjust.works and it looks fine to me, no abbreviation. Edit: I'm on my phone

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks! I noticed the discrepancy on the desktop site first and I’m glad everybody is chiming in with results on different browsing methods

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It looks okay in the Connect app.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks! The automatic conversion of a trio of periods into slightly differently sized ellipses annoys me, but it seems like that’s the default format.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Results:

On Voyager mobile app, the quantity of punctuation typed = quantity of punctuation displayed in published comment

On desktop site, the results are interesting in how they vary

More than 3 exclamation points becomes 3 exclamation points

More than 3 question marks becomes 3 question marks

2 periods becomes 3 periods, 5 periods becomes 6 periods, 8 periods become 9 periods. Seems like the rule is if the quantity of periods is 1 less than a multiple of 3, then an extra period is added to make it a multiple of three.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

On desktop site, the results are interesting in how they vary

on 'old' here, it is as written for all three. no lines are truncated.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks for mentioning that. I had completely forgotten that “old” style was a thing. It is odd how some of the periods are larger than the others, as if they were bolded; must be that periods in ellipses (trios of periods) are smaller than periods not in ellipses. Screenshot for posterity’s sake

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

sorry for not catching that, i don't use the glasses when using the pc.. but closer inspection reveals it uses an ellipse where possible (three dots), which is narrower than the three individual characters it replaces.

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