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No, it's the other way around. The article from The Verge that you substituted points to and is based upon (after it was updated) the original source post by P
by JdeBP 4y ago
No, it's the other way around. The article from The Verge that you substituted points to and is based upon (after it was updated) the original source post by Paul Haddad that I gave, which didn't point to anything. Notice that the post referenced is the one in the large font, not the one at the top. (-:
- pvg 4y agoIt's sort of circular now with the posts pointing to each other. The verge one is probably the better summary and has more context, at this point.
- JdeBP 4y agoThey do not point to each other. M. Haddad's previous post point to The Verge. The post that I hyperlinked to came afterwards, and The Verge points to it. It does not point to anything.
- pvg 4y agoYour original link https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 has https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter-online-third-party-apps-outage https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter... at the top which in turn links to your original link https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 near the top. They cross-link regardless of the circumstances/sequence of events that led them to cross-linking.
- JdeBP 4y agoNo, that is https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695455993367527 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695455993367527, which is the preceding post. Unlike Hacker News, Mastodon makes the post linked-to by the URL have a different background and a larger font. And https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 is very clearly a post that contains no hyperlink at all. That's because it was posted before The Verge then went back and edited its article.
- pvg 4y agoI mean, a link is what it displays and contains. The two documents referred to by these urls refer to each other. It's not a convoluted case to make.
- dang 4y agoSorry if I messed that up. https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter-online-third-party-apps-outage https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/15/23556359/tweetbot-twitter... seemed to contain more background info, so seemed preferable at the time. But moderation is guesswork and I might have guessed wrong!
- JdeBP 4y agoI was going by the general principle of pointing right to the source, which is Paul Haddad's actual post, rather than secondary coverage of it by someone else, which only got updated after Paul Haddad had posted, as well.