• dariusj18@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s not “ok”, it’s an obvious mistake. I only emphasize the context because people are acting like, even if this was intentional, that it has any effect.

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      1 month ago

      Any idea what kind of coding error might delete weirdly specific parts of a web page? Might as well have said it was a spooky ghost.

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        1 month ago

        Sure, here is one of my guesses, though the site is actually pretty complicated, so this is a very simplistic reason as an example. Assuming they use a static site generator. Each Article is it’s own WYSIWYG. They have a special document format that allows for inline notation of annotations. Someone was editing the doument to update an annotation, they left out a closing bracket and the SSG just decides to not render invalid annotations, so everything after the missed closed bracket was assumed to be bad data.