# Quote context impacts functionality of quote

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-context-impacts-functionality-of-quote/138005
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-context-impacts-functionality-of-quote/138005 "2020-01-07T20:01:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-context-impacts-functionality-of-quote/138005/2 "2020-01-07T20:16:24Z")

</div>

This was a conscious change a few years ago:

> [@Discourse CommonMark migration plans confetti\_ball balloon](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-commonmark-migration-plans-confetti-ball-balloon/64234/6):
>
> I may pull this out to another topic, but I feel that I need to hammer_and_wrench hamster some stuff. Inline multiline quote[quote]that spans lines and blocks [/quote]Is a terrible format should not be supported Instead joy_catman_in_tuxedo:t4 Inline multiline quote [quote] that spans lines and blocks [/quote] Is a terrible format should not be supported At least the new format can not be as unreadable.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-context-impacts-functionality-of-quote/138005)._