Die4Ever , 10 months ago

one thing that’s annoying about this is that sometimes new content will be added to an old URL

like Steam Hardware Surveys, there’s no way to perma-link to a specific month, their page only shows the most recent results

store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

which can cause weird issues with Lemmy thinking it’s the same post and only showing 1 of them

I had this issue with one of my own communities, I was posting links to the Github Releases page for every new release (which is usually good because people finding old links on Google should see the latest release and the full list of releases, not the one specific release)

but I realized only 1 post would be visible at a time, and if you did Top All sort then it would be a post about an old release, now I gotta post directly to the specific release

when Lemmy has some form of sibling communities or grouped communities, I think it can be less aggressive in detecting “cross-posts” and only explicit cross-posts would be handled as such