99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python

HN's automatic title editing strikes again. The title of this submission should presumably be: "99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python".

Note to anyone who submits an article: If the title gets mangled like this, edit it.

It definitely took me quite a bit of time from I joined HN until I learned that if you edit your submission title then you can override the automatic edits that HN makes to the title you originally submitted.

And I would guess that likewise there are still a lot of people that don’t know this.

Also, sometimes one might not realize that the title got changed until it’s too late to edit the title of the post.

> edit it.

How???

> HN's automatic title editing strikes again.

Demonstrating for the umpteenth time that automated clairvoyance is an idiotic idea.

Same as with comments, submissions have an edit link that works for an hour or so after submission.

You can only edit the submission title. If you want to edit the link, email the mods.

Here I was assuming bottles might fit nicely into the Flask ecosystem.

I wish HN could just take the url and then fetch the title of the page.

That would save quite a hassle, especially on mobile.

Why does HN automatically edit titles??

It’s supposed to kill clickbait titles. In practice it just randomly mangles titles. I don’t get why they don’t remove the feature and instead rely on flagging.

There's already a bottle web framework [1]. It came out around the same time as Flask I think. It might have even started as a spoof of Flask even? Or vice versa?

[1] https://bottlepy.org/

IIRC, it's vice versa. Bottle predates Flask by a few years I think.

Edit to add: Bottle's own FAQ says so: https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/faq.html#what-about-flask

In this case, the missing '99' isn't a typo, it's deliberate by HN to eliminate clickbaity headlines like '7 Ways To Be A Better Programmer.'

That would be prone to title injection by malicious pages. ;)

More seriously, HN should instead display an instruction after submitting, informing that the title was changed and that the submitter should check the change and edit if necessary. The issue is that most submitters either don’t seem to notice that the title changed or don’t hit on the idea that they can edit it after the fact.