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Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by bArray on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:29PM (#30026805)
How Not to Support HTML Text, write.as Edition:

> If you're stuck using Zoom, jump on [one](https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Sharing-application-w...) [of](https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Linux-screen-sharing-...) [the](https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Unable-to-share-scree...) [..]

Why do you need JS to translate your unreadable HTML into readable HTML?

Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by duiker101 on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:36PM (#30026907)
> _Pssst, coming from Hacker News? Add a ".md" to the URL_

This might have been added after your comment.

Link with md: https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k.md

Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by bArray on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:05PM (#30029986)
> This might have been added after your comment.

If that's the case, great work in responding so quickly.

> Link with md: https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k.md

You'd think the `.md` would be the markdown and the blank/`.html` would be the HTML? Not the other way around? Might be worth the owner of the website swapping that around afterwards.

Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by saurik on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:50PM (#30030455)
Maybe the idea is that you edit plain text files but then can optionally claim "this file can be parsed as X", which actually I want to say is kind of cool? Though... I guess if this were my site, to make that less confusing, I would make the plain text version .txt and then just not really have a "default" version.
Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by CameronNemo on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:12PM (#30027533)
@dang can we get the link updated?
Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by kxra on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:47PM (#30028120)
Do we know why it was modified? I think hackernews stripped off the .md for some reason, but if you submit the URL with an anchor like https://write.as/hash.md#title that seems to preserve it
Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by amatecha on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:05PM (#30028380)
It was probably submitted incorrectly, my guess
Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by kxra on Friday January 21, 2022 @03:03PM (#30029210)
When I tried to resubmit the correct URL, it was stripped again. Does it work for you?
Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by amatecha on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:22PM (#30030168)
didn't try myself, but looks like the URL has been corrected now! :D
Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by LinAGKar on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:46AM (#30035861)
For some reason that message only shows up when you're already on the .md URL. If you go to https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k it's not there.

Now at least the link here is updated, though my RSS reader had the old link.

Re:How Not to Support Desktop GNU+Linux, Zoom Edition by hackmiester on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:58PM (#30027293)
I don't think it was caused by your lack of JS. I have JS enabled and it still did this until I altered the link.