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idlewords ◴[15 Sep 16 18:28 UTC] No.12508545[source]▶

I am very happy that there's a transcript. But I just spent two minutes trying to figure out how to cut and paste it into a textfile (Scribd won't let me download it without signing up).

My request to YC is to publish transcripts like this as text.

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sandslash ◴[15 Sep 16 18:36 UTC] No.12508596[source]▶

>>12508545 #

Hi there. That certainly is inconvenient!

Here's a link to the transcript in RTF, and we will definitely note it for future posts: https://goo.gl/kaMMwv

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idlewords ◴[15 Sep 16 18:43 UTC] No.12508663[source]▶

>>12508596 #

Heh, now it's asking me to sign up to Dropbox.

Thanks for noting my request, and consider just including the text in the body of the page. It will blow people's minds.

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1. clydethefrog ◴[15 Sep 16 19:04 UTC] No.12508850[source]▶

>>12508663 #

And it's a shorted goo.gl url, that also could expire or be removed in the future.

What's indeed against plain text in the body? It's more easy, it will always be readable. And what about accessibility? Or archiving the content?

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