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The only thing defensible there is that channel names can't end with a period - the same should be true of all URLs. Kids especially when told to type in a URL
by wizofaus 3y ago
The only thing defensible there is that channel names can't end with a period - the same should be true of all URLs. Kids especially when told to type in a URL will put the period/full stop after it in the instructions they're reading from then wonder why it doesn't work...if it simply wasn't allowed browsers could just strip it off.
- hunter2_ 3y agoSimilarly, when drafting some sort of communication (email, documentation, etc.) one might have a URL as the last "word" of a sentence (or comma-delimited clause, etc.) and apply typical rules of grammar that say not to use a space between the last "word" and the subsequent punctuation. Then upon saving (or upon viewing, or sometimes upon hitting the space bar, depending on implementation) the automatic linkification kicks in, and in my experience enough of them aggressively trim such punctuation (period, comma, etc.) before setting the href that people can get away without thinking about this, but some linkification functions end up keeping it, yielding a 404 error when clicked. High-usage products like email clients and chat apps tend to aggressively trim, while lower quality products like ticketing systems tend not to, as far as I can tell.