Follow-up Comment #14, bug #60927 (group groff): At 2025-08-25T16:08:33-0400, Keith Marshall wrote: > [comment #10 comment #10:] >> [1] Savannah URLs can be brutally long. [...] > Indeed, and writing that on one line, in your comment, with no > discretionary line breaks, (e.g. by inserting U+2009 zero width spaces > at strategic points), has introduced horizontal overflow, adding a > horizontal scroll bar for this _entire_ ticket; the effect is to make > reading of the entire ticket very uncomfortable. If editing of ticket > content were possible, after submission, this could be easily fixed, > but frustratingly, that's a feature which I used to rely on, for > malformed OSDN.net tickets, but it is unsupported on savannah; > consequently, the layout of _this_ ticket is comprehensively stuffed > up forevermore, (or at least until the savannah admins recognise that > such a feature is fundamentally essential, and implement it).
I'm with ya there. It's also frustrating because the URL Savannah
constructs uses HTTP GET is a particularly lunkheaded way: _all_
parameters are explicitly specified even if their values match the
default. It's extremely rare that I specify more than a handful of
search criteria, but every possible one gets encoded into the URL.
I tried a URL-shortening service once or twice, but it brought its own
problems. I can't remember what they were; I don't think the links
expired, but some people (possibly including myself) may have had
problems with their browsers paranoiacally filtering them.
And that in turn may be the product of a decade or two of Rick-rolling,
goatse.cx-ing domain obfuscation shenanigans.
Software development ain't easy after 32 years of endless September...
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