arundelo comments on CFAR website launched - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 03 July 2012 03:01PM

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Comment author: arundelo 03 July 2012 06:49:51PM 2 points [-]

The URL should be appliedrationality.org, not www.appliedrationality.org.

I agree (in the sense that this is what I do with my own sites), but here's a pro-www argument. (More accurately it's an argument against using a "bare" domain name in web addresses; that link itself does not start with "www.", but it does start with "faq.".)

Comment author: thomblake 03 July 2012 07:01:12PM 1 point [-]

The arguments are good, but as you say they do not support 'www' as opposed to any other prefix. 'www' should be consigned to the flames.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 03 July 2012 10:22:45PM *  3 points [-]

There is one advantage of "www" -- if you write the website address without "http://" part, only the "www.appliedrationality.org", some softwares will recognize that it is a web link and will make it clickable; the same thing will not happen with "appliedrationality.org". (For example if you write that in an e-mail, or a comment on a web page.)

I don't know how much this is useful in real life. Could possibly generate a few extra links and higher pagerank.

Either way, some people will write the "www" part even if it's not there, so if it is not the official one, it should redirect.