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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DrYes to c/sysadmin
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I don't know how to crosspost properly.

I think this is a serious design flaw. If you agree please upvote the post on lemmy.ml community for visibility

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On Kbin's end the thread ID is 57540 and the appended text is simply a hint to what is on the other side of the link (i.e. it doesn't change anything). This is standard practice and you see it a lot across the web
Try this: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/57540/THLPFWYHYULHDTPUYWHDUYPHWUDUYWHUYDWHUYWHPD

[–] 18107 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

StackOverflow had the same feature until people started abusing it for SEO. After that, they decided to remove the option.

[–] lich_hegemon 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. SE is profit driven. They want to be at the top of the list when people Google stuff.

For a service like this tho, is that really that big of an issue?