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Re:Can't somebody fix the "Unknown or expired link" bug? by vkkan on Friday July 27, 2012 @06:33AM (#4300815)
you mean in the web app? or in your blogs ? for both we can have small service to use broken link checker from w3 site will do right ?
Re:Can't somebody fix the "Unknown or expired link" bug? by szajbus on Friday July 27, 2012 @06:36AM (#4300821)
He means Hacker News' next page link. The URL you get by clicking it is unique to you and it preserves order of stories when you navigate from one page to next, but it has short lifetime.
Re:Can't somebody fix the "Unknown or expired link" bug? by ralph on Friday July 27, 2012 @07:01AM (#4300853)
Yes, that's right, but if you look at the page source you'll see fnid used elsewhere too, e.g. "add comment" IIRC. It's annoying to have typed a comment, hit add, only to find the continuation has been flushed from the cache at the server.