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Discussion on: What are the first differences you noticed in GitHub after Microsoft bought it? Post here yours!

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Fred Heath

I've noticed this animated paper-clip coming up when I'm trying to merge a PR and asking me if I need any assistance in messing up my code ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Michael "notriddle" Howell

Your shruggie is missing an arm. You need to write it like this:

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The first two backslashes are the left arm (one is the actual backslash, while the other escapes it). The third backslash escapes the underscore (which is part of the Markdown syntax). The last one, all on its own, is to escape the other one.