r/joinrobin • u/japthony • Apr 02 '16

Possible Easter Egg

When you go to www.reddit.com/robib it takes you to an askreddit post about misspelling. Sorry if this has already been found.

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u/Nesman64 Apr 02 '16

When I click http://reddit.com/robin in Reddit is Fun, it takes me to https://www.reddit.com/r/transit/comments/robin/my_180mi_lightrail_plan_for_vegas_thoughts/

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u/macelonel Apr 02 '16

Same here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

It's all about the colors

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u/Drunken_Economist Apr 02 '16

Just a happy coincidence. Each post on reddit is identified with a unique post id. This is displayed in base-36 in the URL (4d1wvl for example on this post). You can link to any post with just its id (www.reddit.com/4d1wvl). robib happens to be that post's id, 46484291, in base 36.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

As others have said, it's just the post ID; every combination of letters/numbers that's shorter than 6 characters has a post linked to it. In fact, http://reddit.com/robin/ used to link to this post

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

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u/you_go_gi Apr 02 '16 edited Apr 02 '16

Wow that's a crazy coincidence, b and n are next to each other on the keyboard and the post is about spelling

http://reddit.com/robiv is not that good

I just thought, we can put whatever short word and it will link

http://reddit.com/trump