[OSM-dev] The new link on the OSM map

[NopMap]

tmcw wrote
> Is it really a terrible weight to update JOSM to recognize the new format?

It is not just about JOSM, the change breaks *every application, web service
or browser plugin* that creates a reference to the osm main page or that
could parse an OSM url.

That's a little bit more :-).

What's more as this was done unannounced (no, an internal issue tracker is
not an announcement), all these applications are failing now as a surprise
for their users.


tmcw wrote
> Can we stop calling any feature that changes the behavior of the site "a
> major step backwards"?

No. If you just go ahead with changes that break things, you should
anticipate damage reports.

Maybe a wider discussion of the expected impacts could have avoided the
problem, but asking for silence on the topic will neither fix the problem
nor the (lack of) procedure which created it.

bye, Nop




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