03-28-2016, 11:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-28-2016, 11:05 PM by LogicParrot.)
Why this is harmful:
- Confuses search engine crawlers. At best, we'll get double links in search results, at worst, some search engine will suspect we're doing something fishy and decrease our rank.
- Confuses a browser's cache, making it download the same content twice if visited from two different links.
- Confuses reverse proxies'
- Confuses humans.
- Messes up hyperlink colors.
- Messes up analytics.
- Makes mass regex replacements harder.
- Makes site scrapers/archivers download many redundant pages. (What if I want an offline backup of the forum so that I can read it in some remote area). We should probably fix this before the [url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/forum.cuberite.org[Internet Archive[/url] starts archiving this site.
- There are probably many more issues that I have not considered.