And the platform says that particular syntax is intended for code: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

It's formatted as a code block, saying don't wrap these lines. But that's not a good idea when it's a long piece of English text.

Is the platform supposed to run some ML algorithm on every code block to decide if it's actually code, and override the explicit don't wrap these lines syntax if it decides it's not actually code?

the user chose the wrong blocks. There's no way for the platform to know

What does the platform do when user correctly quotes a code block? It would still be broken on mobile, would it not?

HN doesn't support proper quoting, which is why people do these hacks.

> HN doesn't support proper quoting, which is why people do these hacks.

Yeah, but there's better hacks at least.

Email-style quoting doesn't work that well for a paragraph exceeding one line, and even worse for multiple paragraphs.

Obvious answer is just not to quote that much, but sometimes it's desirable to, especially as in the case above, where a block of external text is being quoted (as opposed to just quoting the particular part of another comment that you're addressing your reply to).

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Seems to look good to me.

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