Heya! Just in case you didn't know, you can use markdown in your profiles on Cohost! Use them to tidy up your links, and get some nice formatting going on!
If you want to make line breaks between some lines, put an empty line between them. For example:
Something Here
Something after a forced line break!
And then if you want a big space between paragraphs like I have between the different segments of my own bio, you can use a combination of the extra lines and the HTML non-breaking space codepoint ( ) like so:
[...] consoles, and niche hardware like the [PlayDate](https://play.date).
Follow me [...]
It even supports tables! Here's a great cheat sheet if you're new to Markdown formatting (this is the same formatting you can use in your posts, by the way!)
Another fun trick
If you want to include an @ character next to something without turning it into A) a Cohost user tag or B) an email address, you can use a combination of Markdown link formatting ([text](url)) and a zero-width joiner.
You can grab a zero-width joiner onto your clipboard here (click the Copy button next to the empty-looking text space) and then paste it after the @.
This will let you do something like this:
[@minalien@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@Minalien)
[@minalien](https://minalien.tumblr.com)
And get a clean tag-looking link! (In both of these examples, I've pasted the zero-width joiner between the @ and the m).
You have to use a zero-width joiner for this because otherwise Cohost will process the link as a Cohost tag or mailto: link and ignore your Markdown link syntax.
