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HN's automatic title editing strikes again. The title of this submission should presumably be: "99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python".

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Stratoscope 2y ago
Note to anyone who submits an article: If the title gets mangled like this, edit it.
- codetrotter 2y ago
  It definitely took me quite a bit of time from I joined HN until I learned that if you edit your submission title then you can override the automatic edits that HN makes to the title you originally submitted. And I would guess that likewise there are still a lot of people that don’t know this. Also, sometimes one might not realize that the title got changed until it’s too late to edit the title of the post.
  - amelius 2y ago
    I wish HN could just take the url and then fetch the title of the page. That would save quite a hassle, especially on mobile.
    - jdminhbg 2y ago
      In this case, the missing '99' isn't a typo, it's deliberate by HN to eliminate clickbaity headlines like '7 Ways To Be A Better Programmer.'
    - layer8 2y ago
      That would be prone to title injection by malicious pages. ;) More seriously, HN should instead display an instruction after submitting, informing that the title was changed and that the submitter should check the change and edit if necessary. The issue is that most submitters either don’t seem to notice that the title changed or don’t hit on the idea that they can edit it after the fact.
- zombot 2y ago
  > edit it. How???
  - Jtsummers 2y ago
    Same as with comments, submissions have an edit link that works for an hour or so after submission. You can only edit the submission title. If you want to edit the link, email the mods.
    - deleted 2y ago
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zombot 2y ago
> HN's automatic title editing strikes again. Demonstrating for the umpteenth time that automated clairvoyance is an idiotic idea.
hansvm 2y ago
Here I was assuming bottles might fit nicely into the Flask ecosystem.
- randlet 2y ago
  There's already a bottle web framework [1]. It came out around the same time as Flask I think. It might have even started as a spoof of Flask even? Or vice versa? [1] https://bottlepy.org/ https://bottlepy.org/
  - darrenf 2y ago
    IIRC, it's vice versa. Bottle predates Flask by a few years I think. Edit to add: Bottle's own FAQ says so: https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/faq.html#what-about-flask https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/faq.html#what-about-flask
km144 2y ago
Why does HN automatically edit titles??
- corytheboyd 2y ago
  It’s supposed to kill clickbait titles. In practice it just randomly mangles titles. I don’t get why they don’t remove the feature and instead rely on flagging.

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Stratoscope 2y ago

Note to anyone who submits an article: If the title gets mangled like this, edit it.

codetrotter 2y ago
It definitely took me quite a bit of time from I joined HN until I learned that if you edit your submission title then you can override the automatic edits that HN makes to the title you originally submitted. And I would guess that likewise there are still a lot of people that don’t know this. Also, sometimes one might not realize that the title got changed until it’s too late to edit the title of the post.
- amelius 2y ago
  I wish HN could just take the url and then fetch the title of the page. That would save quite a hassle, especially on mobile.
  - jdminhbg 2y ago
    In this case, the missing '99' isn't a typo, it's deliberate by HN to eliminate clickbaity headlines like '7 Ways To Be A Better Programmer.'
  - layer8 2y ago
    That would be prone to title injection by malicious pages. ;) More seriously, HN should instead display an instruction after submitting, informing that the title was changed and that the submitter should check the change and edit if necessary. The issue is that most submitters either don’t seem to notice that the title changed or don’t hit on the idea that they can edit it after the fact.
zombot 2y ago
> edit it. How???
- Jtsummers 2y ago
  Same as with comments, submissions have an edit link that works for an hour or so after submission. You can only edit the submission title. If you want to edit the link, email the mods.
  - deleted 2y ago
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zombot 2y ago

> HN's automatic title editing strikes again. Demonstrating for the umpteenth time that automated clairvoyance is an idiotic idea.

hansvm 2y ago

Here I was assuming bottles might fit nicely into the Flask ecosystem.

randlet 2y ago
There's already a bottle web framework [1]. It came out around the same time as Flask I think. It might have even started as a spoof of Flask even? Or vice versa? [1] https://bottlepy.org/ https://bottlepy.org/
- darrenf 2y ago
  IIRC, it's vice versa. Bottle predates Flask by a few years I think. Edit to add: Bottle's own FAQ says so: https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/faq.html#what-about-flask https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/faq.html#what-about-flask

km144 2y ago

Why does HN automatically edit titles??

corytheboyd 2y ago
It’s supposed to kill clickbait titles. In practice it just randomly mangles titles. I don’t get why they don’t remove the feature and instead rely on flagging.