alt.hn

12/11/2025 at 8:13:42 PM

Em Dash in Reddit Comments

 https://jonatron.github.io/randomstuff/reddit/

by jonatron

12/11/2025 at 9:07:22 PM

Hard to correlate this to any real world events when the X axis is in days since epoch, rather than a human intelligible format.

by thesh4d0w

12/11/2025 at 9:25:37 PM 

    2020 1577836800 15
    2021 1609459200 16
    2022 1640995200 16
    2023 1672531200 16
    2024 1704067200 17
    2025 1735689600 17

by forgotmypw17

12/11/2025 at 9:16:27 PM

Hopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible

by jonatron

12/11/2025 at 10:19:51 PM

here you go https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq

by garyfirestorm

12/11/2025 at 10:27:36 PM

What's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?

by crote

12/12/2025 at 2:20:57 AM

iOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.

by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF

12/12/2025 at 5:10:00 AM

Meanwhile people who write m-dash because they like good typography...

But TBH m-dash is inaccessible enough to prevent people doing so, at least on forums

by p0w3n3d

12/12/2025 at 6:13:13 PM

It's long been easy to type one on a Mac— option+shift+hyphen. The shortcut is mnemonic, even.

by tomjakubowski

12/11/2025 at 10:17:58 PM

Here's a better version of the plot

https://imgur.com/a/Hh6wroq

by garyfirestorm

12/12/2025 at 10:27:07 AM

Thanks, although it's annoying to access from the UK.

by jonatron

12/12/2025 at 6:52:45 PM

Guiltily swapped back to small hyphens recently,

so as not to arouse suspicion that my very-human texts and emails are AI generated.

Minor sadness.

by DANmode

12/11/2025 at 10:04:09 PM

From my cold, dead hands.

by treetalker

12/12/2025 at 3:54:15 AM

From your cold — dead, in fact — hands?

by FireBeyond

12/12/2025 at 8:36:42 AM

His hands aren't just cold — they're dead.

by heavensteeth