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Re:Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy s... by TacoSteemers on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:05PM (#30184060)
The redirect is for the humans. The page that does the redirect is for the applications, like Slack and Twitter. They will use the meta tags on that page to show a "social media preview".
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Re:Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy s... by ryandrake on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @06:00PM (#30185412)
Would have been helpful for OP to mention that in the summary. I also couldn't figure out what it did. I just clicked the links and they redirected. No clue what a "fancy social preview" is.
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