Woah. I didn't know about that. I found it from asciiart.eu. This stuff makes me wish HN supported ANSI. We could have so much fun. (Also PRE or preformatted text would be useful).

Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!

> Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

        .-"```"-.
       /_\ _ _ __\
      | /{` ` `  `}
      {} {_,_,_,_,}
         )/ a  a \(
        _(<o_()_o>)_          __
       { | /_)(_\ | }       _/  \
     /`{ \        / }`\   _| `  |
    /   { '.____.' }   \ {_`-._/
   /     {_,    ,_}     \/ `-._}
  |        `{--}`    \  /    /
  |    /    {  }     | `    /
  ;    |    {  }     |\    /
   \    \   {__}     | '..'
    \_.-'}==//\\====/
    {_.-'\==\\//====\
     |   ,)  ``     |
      \__|          |
       |     __     |
       | _   /\   _ |
       |     ||     |
       \ _ _ || _ _ /
       {` ` `}{` ` `}
       {_,_,_}{_,_,_}
        |    ||    |
        /-. _||_ .-\
   jgs /    /  \    \
      |___ /    \ ___|
      `"""`      `"""`

Glad I could share it!

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc says:

> Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

I assume that's how the top level comment posted the tree which is in a <pre><code> structure.

But we still miss out on the great ANSI colors.

I kinda do want to go back to oldschool bbses, with cool text-mode lightbar interfaces.

This guy was prolific! Wow

Not a guy ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Stark

TIL! Thanks! :)

Ahhh of course it's a signature. Makes total sense now.

I thought it was just a straggler.