hi guys,

it will be really very nice if you add this.

for example

i add a website

http://www.mysite.com

another people or me add a second website

http://mysite.com

now MAYBE we have a duplicate entry

drigg shoult show me. www.mysite.com is alredy on our system. are you sure that mysite.com isnt the same?

i hope you understand

regards

Lausch

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mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Hi,

Sorry, but I don't agree with this. The main problem is that there is no current way, in drigg, to do something like "are you sure that mysite.com isnt the same?". An URL is either already there, or not. There is an error, or there isn't.

Also, I don't think it's actually *that* likely that this will actually happen. We have been running fsdaily for about 9 months, with about 1 million page views per month, and this has _never_ been a problem...

Merc

Lausch’s picture

Lausch commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

i know what you mean. my friend runned a pligg site for some month.

they have disscussed about many websites.

many users posted domain.com and many users www.domain.com this was bad.

what about a checkbox

include www. ?

regards

Lausch

duntuk’s picture

duntuk commented

i don't know, this doesn't sound like it's too difficult to implement...

just have the backend do a wildcard search; e.g. "($)website.com/story"... then if a match is found, print out the results in a list so the user can verify if the link actually exists or not (by looking at this list)... and let him or her decide whether to go ahead and post it

e.g.
This seems like a duplicate story, are you sure you want to post it?

Below are possible matches:

[printed list]

[button "Post it"] [button "Forget it"]

mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented

Hi,

Complete, working patches are most welcome...
(It is difficult to implement, BTW)