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Please tell me this means that Twitter links will be banned from HN.
by hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
Please tell me this means that Twitter links will be banned from HN.
- morkalork 3y agoYou can see when the change happened because all new Twitter submissions are pointing to the /home redirect! https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com I guess hn tries out the submitted urls?
- consumer451 3y ago> I guess hn tries out the submitted urls? It does indeed. I know that they try to get the canonical page URL in the meta tags, for example. Then your submission URL is changed to that.
- morkalork 3y agoInteresting, thanks for the explanation!
- barbazoo 3y agoThat's the dream
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y agoThe other day there was a twit on the frontpage with just the text "some people change their mind some times". I'm 14 and this is deep.