Hi all

When using itch.io's Community boards, when I type a message,

whenever I press [Enter], I actually get 2 [Enter]s to happen,

and this causes an Extra empty line to be between my lines.

You can see it even here, in the current post - every time I press [Enter], it causes an exaggerated spacing between the lines..

As If I pressed 2 [Enter]s.

Is there any way I can fix this on my side?

Or this is something that can be done on the website's side?

I hope the developers of itch.io see this, and can help.

Thank you

Enter creates a new paragraph. To make a new line Shift+Enter should work. Alternatively, Markdown can break lines as long as the first line ends with a space.

Hi mid

Thank you so much, this small thing is a huge help for me..

BTW, since other people might not know it,
maybe the developers of itch.io can consider one of the following:
1) To make a setting in the Account settings, for choosing the default [Enter] behavior: either New Paragraph, or New Line.
if #1 is too complicated, then maybe instead:
2) Add a small note in the new Thread/Post page, on the side, mentioning the difference between [Enter] and Shift-[Enter]..

It will really help other people who don't know what causes this, like I was, till 10 minute ago after you helped me..

Leaving a vertical space between paragraphs is the US convention (see Wikipedia), which is going to be familiar to most people nowadays due to the default browser stylesheet and various markup languages. You can change that on your own creator profile and game pages if you ask for custom CSS, but in the various editing areas I'm guessing it could be tricky, since Enter for paragraphs and Shift-Enter for hard line breaks is a near-universal convention nowadays, in apps ranging from chat clients to office software. Some of them don't leave a vertical space, but they still make the distinction between a paragraph break and a hard newline.

Hi No Time To Play

Yes, I know what you mean..

But this decision, that became a wide-spread convention, is a bit ironic,
since the more common operation that people usually do, is a simple new line,
vs new paragraph, which occurs less times.

So the more comfortable key (just [Enter]), would've been more appropriate for the more used operation (new line),
and the harder to use key combination (Shift-[Enter]) should've been assigned to the operation that is used less.

Oh well.
At least I found a solution and I am now able to write posts that don't look too airy..