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briandmyers  ·  4507 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski (and a lot of the internet) is broken!
Here's the relevant bit from that "markdown" link :

"When you do want to insert a <br /> break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.

Yes, this takes a tad more effort to create a <br />, but a simplistic “every line break is a <br />” rule wouldn’t work for Markdown. "

What I don't get is why the simplistic rule "wouldn't work for Markdown". Why the hell not?

Two points :

1) Why should I have to artifically add TWO spaces at the end of a line, to get the desired behaviour? I haven't seen a good reason yet.

2) Even if I did learn this new habit, THAT DOESN'T HELP, if what I'm doing is (for example) copying and pasting a poem, where the existing line breaks are important.