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infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Hi! This is just a friendly reminder letting you know that you should type the shrug emote with two backslashes to format it correctly:

Enter this - ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

And it appears like this - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
you can use codeblocks to show it how it is by the way

like this ¯\\_(ツ)\_/¯

That shows the exact code you typed without applying any formatting to it whatsoever.

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LemUrun@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Fuck you, I’ve been on Reddit long enough. Why the hell this is still a thing on Lemmy? Can’t you fix it or something?

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- infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s not a reddit or lemmy thing, generally backslash is used as an escape character in a lot of programming languages. Here and in reddit comments accept markdown and markdown uses backslash as escape character. You need an escape character for example to write a backtick in a codeblock: ```
  
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- Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s a markdown issue due to how markdown styling works. It would be nice if we had a fancy editor like Reddit does since MD can be fussy in some circumstances, especially trying to make blank lines.
  
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