Left hand number = # of exclamation points I type to the right of it

Test is to see if the number of exclamation points gets abbreviated on desktop site or mobile app

1 !

2 !!

3 !!!

4 !!!

5 !!!

6 !!!

7 !!!

8 !!!

9 !!!

10 !!!

Test to see if other punctuation behaves the same:

1 ?

2 ??

3 ???

4 ???

5 ???

6 ???

7 ???

8 ???

9 ???

10 ???

1 .

2 …

3 …

4 ….

5 ……

6 ……

7 …….

8 ………

9 ………

10 ……….

Hopefully I didn’t miscount while typing

    • Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Thanks! The automatic conversion of a trio of periods into slightly differently sized ellipses annoys me, but it seems like that’s the default format.

    • Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Thanks! I noticed the discrepancy on the desktop site first and I’m glad everybody is chiming in with results on different browsing methods

  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    8 days ago

    Results:

    On Voyager mobile app, the quantity of punctuation typed = quantity of punctuation displayed in published comment

    On desktop site, the results are interesting in how they vary

    More than 3 exclamation points becomes 3 exclamation points

    More than 3 question marks becomes 3 question marks

    2 periods becomes 3 periods, 5 periods becomes 6 periods, 8 periods become 9 periods. Seems like the rule is if the quantity of periods is 1 less than a multiple of 3, then an extra period is added to make it a multiple of three.

    • adarzaEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      On desktop site, the results are interesting in how they vary

      on ‘old’ here, it is as written for all three. no lines are truncated.

      • Squorlple@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Thanks for mentioning that. I had completely forgotten that “old” style was a thing. It is odd how some of the periods are larger than the others, as if they were bolded; must be that periods in ellipses (trios of periods) are smaller than periods not in ellipses. Screenshot for posterity’s sake

        • adarzaEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          sorry for not catching that, i don’t use the glasses when using the pc… but closer inspection reveals it uses an ellipse where possible (three dots), which is narrower than the three individual characters it replaces.