I only want to know one simple thing!

Oct 18, 2023 5:33 PM

While using Discord, I wanted to italicize some text. I didn’t see the familiar B I U formatting buttons, so I quickly searched “how to italicize on discord.”

THIS is what I should have gotten:

That’s 52 words. The formatting quickly draws attention to the answer, so I only need to read a mere 8 words to get what I need.

I typed this efficient answer for the purpose of this post, because if this simple answer exists somewhere on the internet, it is buried under a bunch of shit like this:

We're already 104 words in. Was it necessary to begin by explaining how italics are used? Why the hell would someone search for "how to italicize" if they didn't know what italics meant?
Fuck's sake. At least it looks like we're close to the answer. That #1 certainly suggests I'm about to find the information I need.

Oh. So #1 wasn't actually #1. It's just more useless text.
Okay, yes, it's good to explain that this applies to the PC app / browser and perhaps not a phone app, but for such a simple topic, you can put that shit AFTER the answer:

(Note - these solutions apply to the desktop / browser application. For instructions on Android / iOS, click here)

Simple. But no. We're at 297 words and still no answer.

Fuck me. Highlight and right click! So simple. The article continues to explain the other methods in similarly thorough detail, but finally I'm done.

At least it wasn't a damned video.
/rant

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First world problems

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But if you didn't learn about how their family grew up italicizing their own discord chat by hand you wouldn't appreciate how easy it is now...

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Or, you could just use this... https://lingojam.com/ItalicTextGenerator

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𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬

Oh fuck me, it does. That's a lot though

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*italics*

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Fuckin' hell it's just *like this* that's ridiculous...

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We don't get italics here! *Cries slantedly*

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He said while explaining it in an over complicated way :D

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IT'S FUCKEN IRONIC YO

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you have to understand: some people are really, truly, unbelievably dense. you think that step by step with screenshots is overkill, but anyone who has ever worked tech support or customer service can tell you that for some users it is not detailed enough.

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I understand. In my opinion, however, "how to" articles in which the "how" can be explained in a sentence should lead with the quick answer and then drill down into hand-holding for those who need it.

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But the ad revenue! And the engaged minutes! And the time-on-site! Won't someone think of the investors‽

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I mean, OP had to look it up instead of just trying the keyboard shortcut(s) for their OS that have standardized since......computers could do shortcuts.

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Oddly, I never learned the keyboard shortcuts, and I learned to type on IBM Selectric II before graduating to Word for Windows.

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