Housekeeping: No more top-level domain redirects

Just a small administrative update for you. Until now, this blog had a bit of code that detected whenever non-US visitors tried to access this blog through a localized top-level domain such as “.ca” (for Canadians), “.co.uk” (for Brits), “.pe” (for Peruvians), etc., and forcibly redirected them to “.com”. Years ago, this workaround was necessary as various scripts and functions on the blog broke whenever they tried to run on a page that didn’t have the right top-level domain – configuring Disqus for “preliatorcausa.blogspot.com” caused it not to work on “preliatorcausa.blogspot.ca”, for instance.

But that was eons ago in Internet time, and things have gotten a lot sturdier since. Thus, I’ve decided to nix the redirect prevention code, so that the top-level domain will now stay localized for international readers. I’ve done some quick testing and everything seems to work fine. You shouldn’t notice any particular difference, other than the page may load a little faster for people trying to access it through domain URLs that don’t end in “.com”. Please let me know if you find anything that doesn’t work.

That is all.