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Going forward I will just inspect the source of their articles to see if it has a canonical URL to that domain and if so I will skip it.
by LinuxBender 3y ago
Going forward I will just inspect the source of their articles to see if it has a canonical URL to that domain and if so I will skip it.
- dredmorbius 3y agoIf I'm reading this correctly, HN rewrites the URL based on canonical regardless of what was submitted. I've just done a test using 'https://example.com/original https://example.com/original' to see if I as submitter can edit a URL after it's been submitted, and the answer appears to be "no". (Titles can be edited ... and I deleted the test.) Which means you've got to watch carefully to see whether the URL you'd submitted is actually being presented, and email the mods if that's not the case. (I suspect HN will tweak their canonical referrer handling for SciAm at least with regards to PoliticoPro.)