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Titles are auto-edited

Open aranke opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

See this HN thread for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23608358

Some examples are:

  1. How to X -> To X
  2. N ways to X -> How to X

Thanks!

aranke avatar Jun 23 '20 16:06 aranke

True, although that's not a feature per se.

minimaxir avatar Jul 14 '20 03:07 minimaxir

Additional case where this happens:

  • "Introducing X" -> "X"

weaversam8 avatar Jul 26 '21 17:07 weaversam8

In some cases it makes words longer instead of shorter, and sometimes this results in the title being too long, even though at first it was not too long.

Once I had a title containing "first" but was two characters longer than the maximum, so I changed it to "1st" but then the auto-correction changed it back to "first" and then complained again that it is too long.

zzo38 avatar Aug 24 '22 23:08 zzo38