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    Uh...I'm kind of missing how you actually achieved this to be two distinct blockquotes before the migration. The point of introducing that > there is that before the migration these two lines didn't render as two blockquotes since that wasn't possible before CommonMark, so the migration tool tries to reproduce that. Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 20:53
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    (In case you're comparing the revisions, keep in mind that the older revisions in the revision history are now rendered with the new markdown engine, too. That is, however, not how they actually looked like before the site was switched to CommonMark.) Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 20:59
  • @ChristianRau I may have been exploiting a bug, previously. IIRC adding 2 spaces at the end of a block quote line (> yada yada {space}{space}\n> yada yada) allowed you to insert newlines in block quotes. Without the 2 spaces, the block quote would join the lines together, wrapping at the width of the block quote box. I probably had two spaces at the end of the first quote, the blank lines, and then started the second quote, and observed it created two separate quotes as I intended. I'd have to test on a non-upgraded site to be sure. Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 21:54
  • Well, I'm not able to reproduce it on Stack Overflow, which hasn't been upgraded yet. Colour me confused. I'm confident when I posted the answers, I did something to make the quotes appear as separate block quotes, without non-quoted text appearing in between. Adding double spaces at the end of the block quote would be a stupid hack only a few would have accidentally discovered, so it wouldn't be many posts that would be affected (that is, if it did work and I'm not going insane). Going forward, it will be much easier to make the 2 block-quotes separate, so, yay. Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 23:30
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    I used to add HTML quotes (<!-- -->) to break up blog quotes. Commented Jun 11, 2020 at 23:59