Ask PG: Why does hackerne.ws now redirect to News.YC?

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I much prefer the hackerne.ws URL - it's shorter and more descriptive. Any chance of getting this change reverted?

It was an opportunity for attacks.

This is actually a real shame, for me the http://news.ycombinator.com website loads really slow, as in, a page load every 30 seconds, but I never had a single issue with the http://hackerne.ws domain.

With this update, Hacker News is now basically unusable for me and I may have to consider finding a new, similar site.

(This is no threat, just an honest account.)

Which is odd: it's always been the same server serving the website whichever domain you came through (afaik).

Then I don't know why, but it's always been the same for me, my work internet connects fine, but the wireless internet dongle I use at home is really slow with http://news.ycombinator.com

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