Ask HN: What is ONBOARD-2698?

1 points by shay_ker 7y ago ↗ HN

I see it in Twitter's robot.txt file, as well as many others:

https://twitter.com/robots.txt

> # Wait 1 second between successive requests. See ONBOARD-2698 for details.

Is this some internet meme?

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detaro 7y ago ↗

I'd guess thats a reference to a twitter-internal bugtracker - JIRA issues have that format.

dotti 7y ago ↗

Looks a lot like Jira ID of some bug/task