Hi Quinn - thanks for taking the time for me.
I posted the bug - FB8699241 - regarding whitespace.
I also tried a number of your suggestions, and find that it just feels cludgy and workround-y
I think most really good developers have just abandoned the forums.
In my post over on the swift forum [... well there is no "over on ... " in this new world, so in the big, massive pile of messages tagged with various random tags, and hopefully somewhere by adding lots of filters and gueswork I might be able to find my way back to my own message], I added a reply you your latest reply. The new reply that I made just appeared at a random place in all the other replies - which makes it utterly impossible to read the question, and the replies, in any logical order that makes sense to me. OK, OK - I hear you say "quote the thing your replying to" but it stillo forces the user to track and order these things in the head, rather than on the screen.
I have one suggestion that will fix all the problems:
Simply make "h.t.t.p.s://de.v.e.l.o.p.e.r.a.p.p.l.e...c.o.m./.f.o.r.u.m.s." point to w.ww.st.a.c.k.e.x.ch.a.n.g.e...c.o.m. and we're done!