I like the brevity of [x ].
If the site can already detect when a url was submitted, perhaps at that juncture you could implement a native crossposting format.
Example:
The link you are attempting to submit has recently been posted in . Would you like to continue submission as a crosspost?
Answering in the affirmative would then adopt the user's title, adding "[x ]" to the end. And the link would change from the original url to the url for the comment section of the original post.
Thoughts?
Agreed.
I'll play around on the test instance.
The additional benefit might be drawing attention to the more niche subs, since a lot of the repeat urls are going to come from the bigger subs that get the highest volume of posts.
For example, someone might post a political article about Hawaii to , and then get the message alerting them it's already been posted to . If they didn't know that sub existed, they'd get a great suggestion to a sub that interests them, and it'd all just be baked into how Poal works.
One caution: I think users should still be able to opt NOT to crosspost if they don't want to. Muh freedums
I think users should still be able to opt NOT
We are and will always give the choice to users. (e.g the new pic8 url/upload feature)
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