It also doesn’t help when the answer is “yeah just disable this feature that is used for security. That fixes the issue” but that really isn’t the best solution
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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThe annoying thing about the dupe policy is sometimes the answer does change and the accepted answer to the existing question is from 5 years ago.
CoffeeGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
eronth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup. Infuriating. I can’t remember how many times I saw a thread of someone asking my version of a question that was then closed as duplicate linking to an older one that wasn’t the right version and therefore the fix was irrelevant or at least not best practice anymore.