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Re:To www or not www by sytse on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:02PM (#13903952)
Don't make the mistake I made: host different content on www.gitlab.com (static site) than GitLab.com (application). People expect them to be the same. Ended up moving the static site to about.GitLab.com
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Re:To www or not www by warent on Saturday March 18, 2017 @07:54PM (#13904158)
Oh my

I always have my www.* domains alas to the site without the www. by default. While you assumed people will almost always think they're different, I'm assuming people will almost always think they're the same.

I wonder how many people get frustrated by being redirected from the www to it's naked counterpart before spamming refresh and leaving in defeated frustration... Uh oh

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Re:To www or not www by sytse on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:21PM (#13904306)
Yeah, big mistake on my part. I don't understand why you're mentioning a redirect, that was not something we were doing.
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