Comment by dang 2 months ago Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241. 4 comments dang Reply mirzap 2 months ago Why move to a thread that is clearly a copy of my post, created 2 hours after mine? dang 2 months ago Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier.Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... mirzap 2 months ago Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to create a duplicate; I checked to see if anyone posted it, but didn't see it at the time. 1 reply →
mirzap 2 months ago Why move to a thread that is clearly a copy of my post, created 2 hours after mine? dang 2 months ago Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier.Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... mirzap 2 months ago Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to create a duplicate; I checked to see if anyone posted it, but didn't see it at the time. 1 reply →
dang 2 months ago Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier.Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... mirzap 2 months ago Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to create a duplicate; I checked to see if anyone posted it, but didn't see it at the time. 1 reply →
mirzap 2 months ago Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to create a duplicate; I checked to see if anyone posted it, but didn't see it at the time. 1 reply →
Why move to a thread that is clearly a copy of my post, created 2 hours after mine?
Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier.
Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation. I didn't want to create a duplicate; I checked to see if anyone posted it, but didn't see it at the time.
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