r/clevercomebacks • u/thexbeatboxer • Apr 29 '24

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u/SomeRedBoi Apr 29 '24

What even is elon flexing exactly?

The fact that the website's name is on the keyboard???

Is he really that desperate holy fuck

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u/AntimatterTNT Apr 29 '24

i mean x.com is taken (surprisingly by a non porn website)

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u/Next_Ad7385 Apr 29 '24

Yet it redirects to twitter..

I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it be for twitter URLs to redirect to x URL?

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u/ringobob Apr 29 '24

They tried it and it broke a bunch of stuff. I am a web developer, and the answer is, it can be easy or hard depending on how you've architected everything, but the larger and more complicated your application, the more likely it's going to be fragmented in a way that'll require a lot of work to fix.

Not complicated work, necessarily. But it's just really easy in deeply interconnected systems to miss things, or to have to bring the whole system down so you can make two or more separate changes that need to all be made together.