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		thewisenerd 48 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: URLs are state containers i see the complaints around URL length limits and i raise you.. storing the entire state in the hash component of the URL http://example.com/foo#abc since this is entirely client-side, you can pretty much bypass all of the limits. one place i've seen this used is the azure portal.. (payload \| gzip \| b64) take of that what you will.

franky47 48 days ago [–]

Except you hit limits when trying to share that URL. Eg: try pasting a URL longer than 4096 bytes in Signal or WhatsApp, and they don't render it as clickable.

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