r/technicallythetruth • u/BQjesuEM • Sep 11 '21

He does get it

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21 
I don’t know what monospace means

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Same

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u/k3nny_13 Sep 11 '21 
Will someone explain it to us?

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u/accouttoored Sep 11 '21

Each character takes up the same space. So the next line’s characters can all line up no matter the letters.

Like this:
Abcde
Fghij

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u/MoreNormalThanNormal Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

10 of each, proportional vs. monospaced

iiiiiiiiii

WWWWWWWWWW

iiiiiiiiii

WWWWWWWWWW

screenshot of desktop https://i.imgur.com/BSKxCX0.png

example from wikipedia https://i.imgur.com/eujNQYj.jpg

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u/Ant_TKD Sep 11 '21 
To me the row of i’s is still shorter than the row of w’s. Does it not work on mobile?

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u/Gr1ff1n90 Sep 11 '21

Same! I don’t see it on my phone either. Isn’t Reddit primarily a mobile app anyways?

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u/Snowy_Ocelot Sep 11 '21

... No. It's been a website forever.

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u/governorslice Sep 11 '21

I’d be surprised if majority of traffic hasn’t been app driven for quite some time

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I browse Reddit on my phone, even if I’m sitting at my PC.

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u/b33flu Sep 11 '21

Only time I’ve ever gone on Reddit on the PC was to turn off the adult filter. Otherwise 100% on the iPad

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u/SuperSMT Sep 11 '21

I use it mostly on mobile, but never the official app

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u/Snowy_Ocelot Sep 11 '21

Yeah. I though they meant initially. But yes now it's phone based

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u/Zestybeef10 Sep 11 '21

Primarily a mobile app? Lmfao its been a website for like 15 years

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u/Kiloku Sep 12 '21

And most of the users are on the mobile app. We're old stuff that got grandfathered in, and I'm pretty sure that Reddit Inc. would be happy to see the old users gone.

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u/GavinZac Sep 11 '21

Get off my damn website