I completely agree. I just would not like to see PerlMonks with all it's history flushed.

Other than some navigation issues, that take some getting used to, the main ongoing, constant, and IMO completely unnecessary and easily solvable annoyance is my posts are altered in a way that does not reflect my intent.

By hitting the return key on the keyboard twice, the intent is to start a new paragraph. I know for a fact that these newline characters are sent to and received by PerlMonks (the program) but are being stripped.

Instead of hitting the return key once, I have to manually type multiple brackets and backslash, PerlMonks is not content with p but also requires slash p surrounding each paragraph. This all becomes rediculous when posting from a mobile device, where these characters are unavailable.

Sometimes I miss one or the other p and the whole post has to be fixed in preview. The implementation does not seem consistent, so I use br.

The program replaces URL encoded space (+) with space. That was the intent. Why should my (or anyone's) intent to start a paragraph be replaced with a space?

It makes no sense, is annoying and time consuming and completely unnecessary.

To strip the newline character, rather than replace it with an html equivalent is obviously intentional, due to sheer laziness perhaps. My only question is why? It should be an easy fix.

Tom

In reply to Re^14: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by PerlGuy(Tom)
in thread Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others) by ELISHEVA

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