• gay_sex@mander.xyzEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          Woah

          2357111317192123.

          Edit: doesn’t work for this comment to me

          23413431414.

          • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            1 day ago

            So, what’s happening is that it interprets a number at the start of a line, followed by a dot, to be an enumeration:

            1. One
            2. Two
            3. Three

            And then it indents that text to a certain fixed width, which is why a very long number sticks out to the left.

            Why your comment didn’t work, is for two reasons:

            1. It stops interpreting a number as an enumeration when you go beyond 9 digits. That’s why your first and last example didn’t work.
            2. It automatically ‘fixes’ the enumeration, if the numbers aren’t successors. I actually wrote “123456789.” at the start of this line, but it changes it to a “2.”. That’s why the “2334.” and “23145524.” you wrote got changed to a “124.” and “125.”, which made them too short to really look broken.