Subject: So, that *would* work on the board...
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Posted on: 2022-06-29 16:34:03 UTC
...But we seem to have turned it off.
I asked Tomash why we did this, but neither of us actually remember. My best guess is that we wanted to avoid breaking emotes that start with "> " at the start of a line. This is particularly pertinant because of an implementation detail of the board: posts are stored to the database as written, and formatted on the way out. This is a Good Thing, by and large, but it does create a problem here: any adjustments we make to formatting apply retroactively to every post ever made. Making that not happen would... actually be a good bit of work, so we haven't and may not.
But yes, we can actually allow this relatively trivially, in theory. It's just that the consequences may be undesirable.