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Re:Cloudflare was down by post-it on Friday July 17, 2020 @09:26PM (#23878115)
I've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?
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Re:Cloudflare was down by Jasper_ on Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:28AM (#23878933)
It's old-school plain-text email etiquette. The original Markdown even used a variant of that syntax for its links definition, known as "reference links". https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link
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Re:Cloudflare was down by therealdrag0 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @12:11AM (#23878835)
Ya I think so. Since there isn’t a way to make html links with a short text .
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