iliana

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is that, apart from the entire business of being an internet landlord1, i think it's fine.

what i think is most egregious is auto-linking domains if they don't have a protocol present. "financialstatement.zip" on its own should NEVER be a link, and should never load content from a website! that's what the protocol indicator is for!!

like, even discord gets this right!! and maybe with this gTLD this misfeature will finally get quashed elsewhere


  1. this is a bad summary of a far more nuanced take i have that i'm not going to get into today but imo domain registries are far closer to "speculative internet landlord" than "benevolent service provider"


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in reply to @iliana's post:

"http://" is 7 characters, or 8 with the s, that are the same on every single website that has ever existed. and they're pretty much impossible for normal people to remember without continuous repeated exposure, and often they're still scrambled even then. This needs to be simplified for the same reason every link stopped including the "www." early on, and even more importantly because at least that caught on.

At a bare minimum, http and https should probably be simplified to h and hs. I don't think anyone could complain much, these are clearly the two most important protocols on the internet, they can have those short names, it's not like tons of other protocols are clamoring for them. I would like it if we could transition to h:/ or h//, distinct enough that it's...oh god wait Windows is going to interpret that first one as an H drive, isn't it. is h// a problem?

okay whatever, point being, you're not going to get significant buy-in on including the protocol header as-is, sure, among techies, but basically nobody else.

edit: rofl why is that www a link in markdown? okay, you know what, I fully support requiring the header now, but I really do hope it can be simplified some for the general public's sake