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Warn HN: The website hnofficehours now redirects to an app's landing page

10 pointsby fmax30about 10 years ago
I noticed something somewhat shady today. You know a few years ago there was this website called hnofficehours where the users of HN were able to make a profile. A lot of the users currently have the link to their user page on hnofficehours in their profile.<p>Well the thing is that today i tried opening a specific link to a user&#x27;s hnofficehours page, well i got a 404.<p>So what i did next was tried opening the page HNOfficehours.com and saw that it redirected to the landing page for an application.<p>So calling out all HNers, remove the HNOfficehours links from your profile, otherwise you are indirectly and unknowingly promoting an application which you had nothing to do with.

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oskarthabout 10 years ago
Shady business tactics, but nonetheless the app seems kind of intriguing (not linking to avoid promoting it).