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I was today years old when I learned Lemmy doesn't let you have links without a trailing slash
POST https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/comment

It get's even weirder. I'm now writing this from PieFed. If you view this comment from PieFed it won't have the trailing slash, but from Lemmy it will. https://piefed.social
Thank you for coming on this journey with me.
Very interesting I wonder what happens if I post both trailing and non-trailing options, do they both get canonized into the same format?
https://piefed.ca/ -- has a trailing slash https://piefed.ca/ -- does not
Thank you for having me along on this journey. I don't really know where it's leading, but maybe it's about the weird software behaviors we discover on the way.
And posting from piefed, is the result the same?
https://piefed.ca/ -- has a trailing slash https://piefed.ca -- does not
Yup, they all have trailing slashes when viewed on Lemmy, and 3/4 have trailing slashes when viewed on piefed. So only piefed actually respects what was originally typed. Lemmy adds a trailing slash when you're adding the comment, and also adds a trailing slash when reading a comment posted that doesn't originally have a trailing slash. Intriguing (and slightly annoying).
Aren't trailing slashes completely useless?
No, not at all.
They are a shorthand for "give me the index of this directory" rather than "give me the first file you find named this." In some configurations, the presence of absence of a trailing slash dramatically reduces the amount of computation an HTTP server must execute before responding to the request.
No shade, but this looks like any other front end. Am i missing something?
Idk. There’s a lot of Lemmy clients and many of them are really good. When I started, Voyager didn’t have good support for larger screens, but I think that has changed. I do think I have the best account switching. Voyager will reset the current navigation when you change accounts. Any pages you have open will be cleared. Blorp does not do that. Blorp is also cross platform like Voyager.
But honestly if you prefer another app, you should use it! All the frontend devs are super cool!
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