Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments links?

Posted by speps on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Between Oct 27th and Oct 28th the HTML code for HN's front page changed from:

Oct 27th: <a href="hide?id=29010103&goto=news">hide</a> | <a href="item?id=29010103">18 comments</a>

Oct 28th: <a href="hide?id=29022887&goto=news">hide</a><a href="item?id=29022887"> | 31 comments</a>

The space and vertical bar between "hide" and the "XXX comments" is now part of the link for the comments.

Could it be fixed please? Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by dang on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:37AM (#29027355)

Fixed now. In the future, please follow the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and email these things to [email protected] rather than posting them to HN.

Fortunately several others did, which is how I found out about this.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by Minor49er on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:03AM (#29026924)

I didn't even notice it, but now that you've pointed it out, I'm annoyed.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by busymom0 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:34PM (#29029627)

I got a bunch of user emails for my HN client (I am the dev for HACK client on iOS, Android and Mac) that the comment count were all zeroes for some reason. By the time I got to troubleshoot the issue, the issue disappeared. I emailed the mods and they told me they had accidentally introduced a bug which caused the issue.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by qkqk on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:49AM (#29026745)

The vertical dividers should just be CSS anyway

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by slater on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:00AM (#29026883)

Have you seen HN's HTML? :D

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by slater on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:37AM (#29026611)

haha.. i just e-mailed hn@ a few mins ago. so annoying! :D

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by amelius on Thursday October 28, 2021 @10:48AM (#29026732)

Is there a workaround?

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments... by busymom0 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:33PM (#29029605)

It's fixed now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29027355

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