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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    This week I worked on a simple url shortener - Cortris. It is written in Go & uses sqlite to store shortened urls.

    This week I worked on a simple url shortener - Cortris. It is written in Go & uses sqlite to store shortened urls.

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  2. Comment on I'm planning to enable the "mark new comments" feature for everyone - any major concerns? in ~tildes.official

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    That makes sense, anyways that data is collected as part of logs so might as well use it in some useful way. I think there should be an option to disable this & also it's fine as default but it...

    Data about which topics' comments pages a user visits will be stored (for 30 days), along with when and how many comments were there at the time.

    That makes sense, anyways that data is collected as part of logs so might as well use it in some useful way.

    There will no longer be a setting to disable this.

    I think there should be an option to disable this & also it's fine as default but it should be done for new registrations only & not previously registered users.

    So any new user will have that turned on by default but existing users will have their preferences as is. Maybe you could add a notice with a link to that preference for sometime but changing existing user's config feels wrong.

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