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What happened to the white space in Articles?

Oct 30, 2024, 9:00 PM

I noticed recently that white space in everyone's articles is missing.

For example if you had a paragraph formatted to end here. [With a newline here] And the next paragraph started here, the newline between paragraphs is omitted.

In articles I've written, I've used white space like this: [Newline] [Newline] [Newline]

Heading

[New line] [New line] *** Sub Heading **** [Newline] One phrase... [spaces] ...subordinate phrase [spaces] ...another subordinate phrase.

That gets rendered now like:

Heading

*** Sub Heading **** One phrase... ...subordinate phrase ...another subordinate phrase.

Is everyone else seeing the same thing? IMHO, it makes articles much more difficult to read.

comments (22)

RonJax2last year

FWIW, looks like the same thing is happening with discussion posts. Curious if it affects comments too.

There should be a new line in between these paragraphs.

RonJax2last year

Testing

*** Three new lines above me ***

One new line above me... ...some space to my left.

RonJax2last year

yeah, weird, doesn't seem like this is a problem for comments, or reviews. Just posts and discussions.

wallanonlast year

On my phone browser I'm seeing the line breaks.

shadowcatlast year

Everything looks fine to me.

Hank Moodylast year

Looks fine to me. Test. One break below this line.

Then two breaks below this line.

Look right?

Hank Moodylast year

And your articles look like they have the appropriate breaks to me too.

RonJax2last year

OK, thank you all for chiming in. I just tried a few different browsers and got some different results.

In Firefox, I definitely still see this problem with my articles and others.

In Chrome, I don't see the problem, I see whitespace in articles.

In Safari the whitespace looks right too.

So this is just a problem with Firefox I guess. Weird.

Muddylast year

The only thing I noticed was in a recent article I couldn't double space it for some reason. That closed up when I published it.

L O S A N G E L E S became L O S A N G E L E S

Muddylast year

Actually it does it in this post as well. There is supposed to be two spaces between the first one, so it's clearly two words. Let me try triple spacing see what happen.

L O S A N G E L E S

Muddylast year

Nope didn't work either. It seems like your not able to do it.

RonJax2last year

^ Yeah, I think the render of the space character is busted everywhere.

This line should not be indented. This line has four spaces in front of it. This line has eight spaces in front of it.

WiseToolast year

LOS ANGELES

WiseToolast year

LOS ANGELES

gammanu95last year

Blame Trump.

viking2012last year

Lol, yeah, no doubt it's trump's fault, he made founder do everything that we question, miss, or dislike on TUSCL.

motorheadlast year

I thought it was CJ Kent’s fault. He considers white space to be inherently racist.

skinnywhiteboylast year

Motorhead beat me to it :(

Jascoi12 months ago

I got to see how my Pixel 6 handles the situation... Los Angeles

Los Angeles

Those were both verbal dictation. LOS ANGELES (typed)

L O S A N G E L E S. (again typed)

Jascoi12 months ago

Yeah. it lost the double space. oh well.,

Jascoi12 months ago

a screenshot of that last posting...

Dolfan12 months ago

I think founder's got a problem with excessive white space. It gets trimmed in a lot of areas, resulting in what I often find to be hard to read text. It's not always clear if its the author or the site that causes it.