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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    A big part of this will be moving the domain from https://hexbear.net to just https://hexbear.net.

    Out of interest, why is that a problem?

    • makotech222 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      not a problem, just something to be aware of. we are doing it to make things cleaner and simpler when federating.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Oh I think you misunderstood me, I was interested in what the technical reasoning behind it was.

        • NewHexbearNewMe [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          causes federation/mobile app confusion (if user types in the wrong one their app can't load the site properly. easy to handle in browser, less easy with apps in the mix that don't follow redirects) and makes user tags longer.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Makes sense. I guess apps don't care about htaccess unless the dev specifically writes it in.

            • NewHexbearNewMe [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              I was talking about 301/302 redirects from the web server. browsers don't need to read htaccess files either, otherwise clients could simply choose to ignore the configuration contained in them which is often security sensitive. They are just used by apache to store directory-specific configuration. Lemmy instances generally use nginx anyhow tho.