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Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi... by freedomben on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:16PM (#42614278)
Agreed. I'm in the minority I'm sure, but I think this is an anti-feature. In addition to your good points, it's also very fragile as a small change in the text of the page can break the link. It also leads to monstrous URLs that are quite hard to read for people who don't know about this feature.
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Re:Justin Trudeau announces resignation as Canadian prime mi... by Gormo on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:30PM (#42614496)
It's a great way to link to the source of a verbatim quote, though. It goes straight to the relevant context, and breaks only if the source of the quote itself is somehow changed, making the new inconsistency clear.
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