Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?

Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by eloisius on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:14AM (#25198130)

Off topic: is it new for HN to elide urls this way? I’ve never noticed it before but it really annoys me. I like that HN is just text, and preprocessing it this way adds no usability. It makes it harder to copy a URL, if anything, and it certainly isn’t prettier.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by tyingq on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:21AM (#25198179)

It's nice on mobile to avoid left-right scroll for long urls. Copying the url is easy enough with right-click for desktop or long press for mobile.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by jsjw7sbw on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:27AM (#25198218)

Whats wrong with wrapping?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by tyingq on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:31AM (#25198236)

Personal preference I suppose. There are a lot of urls where the text of the url (or large parts of it) conveys no meaning. In that case it breaks up the comment without adding value. Sometimes you see people use a footnote format here because even the short url is in the way.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by eloisius on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:42AM (#25198316)

Not nice to me. I like to be able to see what the link is before I click it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by dorfsmay on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:51AM (#25198385)

On mobile, in Firefox, do a long press and it'll show you the full target URL. Hoover on any desktop browser.

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