Why use www? - Hackdot

Re:Why use www? by dlubarov on Saturday January 30, 2016 @08:14PM (#11004747)

Aesthetics aside, one benefit of naked domains is that shorter URLs are better for sharing in chat programs. 'www.' takes up a nontrivial amount of space in certain environments (e.g., a gchat window within gmail).

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Re:Why use www? by michaelmior on Saturday January 30, 2016 @08:58PM (#11004880)

I'm not sure I understand why this creates any real issues.

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Re:Why use www? by 0xCMP on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:46PM (#11005139)

I personally dislike it. It's annoying. Links can be long as it already.

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Re:Why use www? by imron on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:55PM (#11005159)

Hence the purpose of the redirect so links to the naked domain work just as well.

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Re:Why use www? by dlubarov on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:29AM (#11005626)

But most users will copy/paste whatever's in their URL bar, which will include www. if the site redirected them to it.

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