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Countless other sites never had that problem in the first place.

• palish 18y ago
  That is a fallacy. (Several, actually: irrelevant conclusion, affirming the consequent, etc.) Man, I miss the old Hacker News crowd. They would never let you get away with making fluff statements that prove nothing.
  • aston 18y ago
    I'm perfectly willing to back up my statements. The general problem we're looking at is that fnid's (and the accompanying closures) are manufactured all over the place, and most of them don't need to stay around for very long. However, there are some of these--in particular the ones created for sending a comment to be posted in a thread--that probably deserve a guaranteed lifetime on the order of hours, not minutes. Putting them into a different fnid queue is what I'd call a relatively easy fix, and that'd handle 95% of the complaints about expired links. The other 5% are due to trying to reply to comment for a thread you opened a while back. I actually don't know why that's even coded the way it is. The reply link could easily just refer back to the post id instead of an fnid. edit: I would probably be willing to fix this stuff myself, but as of late it seems pg's not been paying that much attention to news.yc. Also, last time I threw up a patch, I got burned pretty bad.
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