HN set my submission url to a wrong one. Why can't I change it back?

Question

Hi all, When I posted a submission this morning, HN changed the url to an unknown one. Now I can't update it, it's disabled.Any ideas ? Help greatly appreciated.

geoah · Accepted Answer

Your HTML includes a canonical link to a different site, which is most likely why HN updated the link. Canonical links are used to allow search engines and other services to figure out that two different URLs are actually the same page, so I think HN did the right thing. Other services will do the same thing either via canonical links, or open graph tags.
You probably want to remove/update your page to point to the right site.
As to why this is even there, probably bad copy/paste, or you might wanna check your hosting provider/software for issues.
`http://www.briiant.com/">`
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_link_element

mindcrime · Answer

I'd suggest emailing hn@ycombinator.com. The guidelines say to prefer sending email for "meta" stuff like this, as opposed to making it a HN post.> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com

HN set my submission url to a wrong one. Why can't I change it back?

Hi all, When I posted a submission this morning, HN changed the url to an unknown one. Now I can't update it, it's disabled.
Any ideas ? Help greatly appreciated.

I'd suggest emailing hn@ycombinator.com. The guidelines say to prefer sending email for "meta" stuff like this, as opposed to making it a HN post.
> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com