Ask HN: What is ONBOARD-2698?

by shay_ker on 2/13/2019, 5:49 AM with 2 comments

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?

  • by detaro on 2/13/2019, 7:37 AM

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

  • by dotti on 2/13/2019, 7:38 AM

    Looks a lot like Jira ID of some bug/task