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The surprising part about this is that X decided to go with Medium as their publishing platform.
by ktta 10y ago
The surprising part about this is that X decided to go with Medium as their publishing platform.
- reitanqild 10y agoLet me continue: I specifically dislike how medium breaks urls.
- ktta 10y agoDo you mean the .#<alphanumeric-code> at the end?
- will_pseudonym 10y agoI'm surprised Google wouldn't also use their own URL-breaking property, AMP. :)
- reitanqild 10y agoOr their other url-breaking platform - blogger - who found out it was a good idea to redirect to a different top level domain based on visitor location :-/
- daurnimator 10y agoHow does it break them? As far as I can see, the only bit that matters is what appears to be a hash at the end. In this case: 3ee86657d6c9. That is, https://blog.x.company/3ee86657d6c9 https://blog.x.company/3ee86657d6c9 is the same post. I don't know how this is substantially+notably different to how other blog platforms do urls.
- reitanqild 10y agoProblem is everone gets a new url. Haven't foun a good way to check if one link to medium is the same as another. This breaks a number of things like duplicate checking for news aggregators and tag suggestions for bookmarking services. Edit: checking now it seems at keast the part before hash stayed unchanged after copy-pasting into another browser and loading. Have they changed or have I misunderstood the whole time?
- throwanem 10y agoI don't think they've changed; if they have, it wasn't recent. Stripping the hash doesn't break anything that I've noticed - I assume it hoses their "share this story" tracking, but I don't really care about that.