• gay_sex@mander.xyz
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        1 day ago

        Woah

        2357111317192123.

        Edit: doesn’t work for this comment to me

        23413431414.

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          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.