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by louispereira 1333 days ago
> As a mild-OCD perfectionist I'm literally grinding my teeth imagining doing it this way.

Haha sorry I understand what you mean!

>If title doesn't have to be unique this already seems as an acceptable compromise.

Yes, currently the title doesn't have to be unique. The platform will just generate a unique URL for each post based on the title, and append a digit if necessary.

> Nice point. Any chance I could copy a post URL or open it in a background page straight from the posts list?

It was initially set up like this, but a bunch of users (mainly on mobile) complained that they didn't like the fact that each post opened in a separate tab. They wanted to just read a post and scroll to the next one easily. That's why I've moved to the current format. Maybe I could make it behave differently on desktop. I'll keep this in mind.

Thanks!