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submitted 11 months ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org -5 points 11 months ago (21 children)

Stop using ampersands.

[–] self@awful.systems 41 points 11 months ago (9 children)

STOP USING AMPERSANDS

years of typography but no practical use found for fancy and
wanted to write shorter sentences anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it’s called “emojis”
“yes, please give me some A&W root beer to wash down my mac & cheese” — statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

look at what the ampersand users have been demanding our Respect for this whole time, with all the & & & we’ve built for them:

they have played us for absolute fools

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org -3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The ampersands gets converted to HTML (aka & by various clients).

In general, it's a good idea to never use ampersands on the web. A lot of sanitizers do not process them properly.

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 11 months ago

what in the fuck

no fuck off with this. holy fuck I hate that this is your reason to hassle one of my users

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