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0 pointsdetaro8y ago0 comments

and your comment is the perfect demonstration why: when truncated, the id gets cut off before the slug.

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Which is... something you don't want to happen, right?

To be fair, if you truncate a url for anything other than display, it's toast (which is why no sane person truncates URLs except for display).

detaroOP8y ago

Right, I was thinking purely display truncation, like here. Surviving copy-paste from here or other actual truncation it's bad, true.

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0 pointsdetaro8y ago0 comments

and your comment is the perfect demonstration why: when truncated, the id gets cut off before the slug.

Which is... something you don't want to happen, right?

To be fair, if you truncate a url for anything other than display, it's toast (which is why no sane person truncates URLs except for display).

detaroOP8y ago

Right, I was thinking purely display truncation, like here. Surviving copy-paste from here or other actual truncation it's bad, true.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse