Closed bdesham closed 3 years ago
Seems like a good idea to me! Happy to merge this, but I wonder if it should be added to the body, maybe as a signature as well?
e.g.
This is a post!
--
http://reddit.com/a/bc/d/
I like that idea. One thing to consider is that Reddit URLs can be really long (at least by Usenet standards); should we be shortening them? Reddit supports shortening post URLs from
https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/8hefx5/nixshell_as_interpreter_for_a_makefile/
to
https://reddit.com/8hefx5
Comment URLs can’t get quite that short, but you can at least go from
https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/8hefx5/nixshell_as_interpreter_for_a_makefile/dyjewns/
to
https://reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/8hefx5/-/dyjewns
Do you think we should shorten URLs this way, in the header and/or in the sig? They may not be the canonical URLs, but it seems safe to assume that Reddit will continue to support them—it’s not like we’re using a third-party link shortener that could disappear at any time.
Sometimes while reading a post I’d like to view the “real thing” on Reddit. This commit adds an
X-Reddit-URL
header to all stories and comments that gives the content’s permalink.