Post #1286045
2026-03-24 12:41 UTC
@RogerBW here's the fucking worst thing about news websites: they change, and links break, constantly and consistently.
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@DarkestKale@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 12:42
@RogerBW Our ABC (not the yank one), will CONSTANTLY change the urls of articles, the headlines, etc - up to eight times in one day, just republishing with slight (unflagged) 'updates' There's no such thing as being able to reference an ABC article. It's fucking quicksand.
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@RogerBW@discordian.social 2026-03-24 12:43
@DarkestKale Even without human fuckery, there is the sort of CMS that makes the master index to an article a bit of text based on its title, and the sort that makes it an arbitrary number.