• gay_sex@mander.xyzEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            Woah

            2357111317192123.

            Edit: doesn’t work for this comment to me

            23413431414.

            • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
              4·
              2 days 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.