Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by sofaofthedamned on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:04PM (#17930398)

Good point - but even my mum (65 and not very good with phones or computers) will just bash the bare domain into her browser.If it's got "www." she'll use that, if not she won't. She still knows it's a web thing, the www. for her and everybody else is superfluous.

Things change. We've had something like 30-odd years of URLs. The people who can't deal with this are vanishingly small, and those that can't are likely not your target market; or they're the sort that'll just consider Facebook to be the web.

I'm not disagreeing with your point btw that some people can't deal with this - all I disagree is the extent.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by dragonwriter on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:06PM (#17930416)

> We've had something like 30-odd years of URLs.

24 from the RFC, 26 from the discussion that led to it, per Wikipedia.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by sofaofthedamned on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:11PM (#17930438)

Good point. I was on Janet / ARPANet before the web. Point conceded!

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by pishpash on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:20PM (#17930497)

I'd bet good money this change was put in by people younger than the web.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by kiallmacinnes on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:55PM (#17930710)

That may be true, and while I wholeheartedly disagree with this change, those that are younger than the web are the next Shepard's of the web.

We're going to see more and more changes that the "old folks of the internet" are going to hate. Some, or even many, of these changes will actually be good changes. We shouldn't prejudice on age.

Again, to be clear, I think this particular change is horribly broken.

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