One downside of this is that it becomes very unreadable on small devices (the us...

pohl on April 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel made a huge mistake 10 years ago

One downside of this is that it becomes very unreadable on small devices (the user has to horizontally scroll back and forth to read each line, ugh)

Representing quoted text in italics does not suffer that downside.

chm on April 23, 2016 [–]

Oh, I never noticed this as I use an app to read HN (forgot the name).