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		ocimbote on May 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Short URLs: Why and How > It's up to the website to choose how navigation works Yes, and they should live by their choice and implement whatever is implied by their semantics. URLs also have their own affordances and I expect to be able to act upon them.

woojoo666 on May 9, 2022 [–]

Url hacking is a clunky and extremely uncommon method of navigation. It should be the least of the website's concern. We don't design our doors based around the 0.01% of people that get in by kicking them down.

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