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		kaoD on July 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: URLs are UI And this is why URLs as input don't work: http://urlme.me/philosoraptor/what%20if%20urls%20were%20actu...? Where's my question mark? ;) Nice idea and nice execution though, too bad the contraints work against it. EDIT: Aaaaaand the UI broke on HN too!

Vendan on July 8, 2017 | [–]

http://urlme.me/philosoraptor/what%20if%20urls%20were%20actu...

FTFY.

But yeah, having to url encode stuff is annoying

TazeTSchnitzel on July 8, 2017 | [–]

With slightly different server-side handling, that could work.

HN would still remove the ? though.

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