Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️anyone know why a service would escape slashes (not backslashes, forward slashes) in their JSON?
like this shit is all {"url":"http:\/\/www.foobar.egg\/web\/site.html"}
gloriouscow@foone if you have JSON in a script tag you need to escape it
this is somewhat analogous to saying if you are going to wear pants on your head you need to take your keys and phone out of your pockets, but hey
@gloriouscow oh, maybe.
dumb but maybe
dumb but maybe
@gloriouscow the site I'm subtweeting that does this is tumblr, who are known to have a little bit of a pants-on-head approach to software development, so it wouldn't surprise me
ah yes tumblr
the site that makes me think "this site has people just like me on it and that is exactly why i will never go there"
@gloriouscow aww, don't you want to be around people just like you?
is this a self-hatred thing?
sorry i keep telling myself to knock it off with the self-deprecating humor; but it slips out now and then
@foone maybe to rephrase -
the bests posts from tumblr inevitably wind up on reddit or somewhere, so you can sort of enjoy the best of it without ever having to find yourself in a heated philosophical debate over the ethics of marrying a pokemon
@gloriouscow true but if you find the right parts of tumblr (and block anyone trying to cause drama) you end up in the parts where they'd only argue about which pokemon is the hottest