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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476793 Decades have passed and HN still can’t automatically dedup
by 7e 2y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476793
Decades have passed and HN still can’t automatically dedup submissions.
- yb303 2y agoWhy dedup? Old forgotten things are as good as new :)
- usr1106 2y ago2 years might be OK, but not 2 days as in this case.
- efilife 2y agoIsn't this intentional? How would deduping work?
- js2 2y agoUsually it does de-dupe any submission with "significant attention", but I'm not sure what the threshold for that is. I'd think the submissions from two days ago (206 points, 93 comments) would have qualified. (It's the exact same URL so that's not why it wasn't de-duped either.) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20attention%20dup&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- joatmon-snoo 2y agoPretty sure dedupe is done manually by u/dang.
- js2 2y agoYes, he can manually merge duplicate submissions and their comments. But there's times when I've submitted items that are dupes and it just takes me to the recent submission and adds an upvote. Now here's something weird: I just tested this by submitting the URL from this submission with the same title and it immediately took me to the discussion from two days ago. So I'm really confused how this dupe got through.
- montag 2y agoI'm ok with dupes. But cross-linking should at least be automatic.
- khimaros 2y agoi use the open source Glider frontend on Android and it shows related posts automatically. recommended.