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Maybe HN should auto-pull title from URL, and then add the posters title as a form of "subtitle/comment"
by voxelghost 3y ago
Maybe HN should auto-pull title from URL, and then add the posters title as a form of "subtitle/comment"
- pindab0ter 3y agoThis assumes those titles are usable, which they often are not.
- yencabulator 3y agoPopulating the field automatically might nudge people toward doing the right thing, though.
- vacuity 3y agoHalf-joke: HN scrapes first few text lines in HTML (in case the very first one isn't the title) and one of them has to be used as the title.