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Good point - but even my mum (65 and not very good with phones or computers) will just bash the bare domain into her browser.If it's got "www." she'll use that,
by sofaofthedamned 8y ago
Good point - but even my mum (65 and not very good with phones or computers) will just bash the bare domain into her browser.If it's got "www." she'll use that, if not she won't. She still knows it's a web thing, the www. for her and everybody else is superfluous.
Things change. We've had something like 30-odd years of URLs. The people who can't deal with this are vanishingly small, and those that can't are likely not your target market; or they're the sort that'll just consider Facebook to be the web.
I'm not disagreeing with your point btw that some people can't deal with this - all I disagree is the extent.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> We've had something like 30-odd years of URLs. 24 from the RFC, 26 from the discussion that led to it, per Wikipedia.
- sofaofthedamned 8y agoGood point. I was on Janet / ARPANet before the web. Point conceded!
- pishpash 8y agoI'd bet good money this change was put in by people younger than the web.
- kiallmacinnes 8y agoThat may be true, and while I wholeheartedly disagree with this change, those that are younger than the web are the next Shepard's of the web. We're going to see more and more changes that the "old folks of the internet" are going to hate. Some, or even many, of these changes will actually be good changes. We shouldn't prejudice on age. Again, to be clear, I think this particular change is horribly broken.