Why would such a valuable site continue to allow itself to be plagued with this type of repulsive usability issue?
"Unknown or expired link." - Why?
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"Unknown or expired link." - Why?
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Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#2Why would such a valuable site continue to allow itself to be plagued with this type of repulsive usability issue?
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#3One reason might be that posts/users are getting axed. Would be nice if everything except spam was unmoderated, imo. Also, the current rate limiters to keep spam out are blocking those that would otherwise be more active.
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#4I, too, wanted to ask this question, but feared that someone would respond with something akin to "submit a patch" or "grep the source code"
Obviously, it makes sense for someone who is versed in the news.arc internals to fix the problem; nonetheless this issue certainly bugs me.
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#5You get that when your session expires, which takes just slightly less time than writing a well thought out comment.
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#6I think some pages are generated statically and expire. Why the login/logout pages "expire", I can't really guess at.
Wow, not sure why this is so deserving of downvotes. Trying to find a source, but I thought there was a previous discussion of many HN pages being statically generated and served quickly with links that expire after a certain time (or become invalid because of what may happen on the server side of things). But oh well.
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#7This happens to me a lot while reading HN. I hit "More" and by the time I am done reading a few comments on a handful of entries, the next "More" has expired, and so has the current.
This only happens on HN (at least to me).
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#8This is apparently an old problem that hasn't been fixed yet. As you can imagine, pg has a lot to do these days ;)
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
#9If you clicked on the links, you'd know why.
The software stores the current state in a closure. The closure gets cached. When the cache is full, the older closures get flushed, hence the error message.
Re: "Unknown or expired link." - Why?
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