Ah, that's because people asked a long time ago for the News post plain
text content to be copied into the body of messages to the mailing lists
(not just a hyperlink to the website). At the time, it seemed easier
just to include full URLs in the original Markdown source so that the
plain text could more easily be copy/pasted into messages to the mailing
lists, since the difference between absolute and relative links on the
was transparent to users after Jekyll rendering. Of course, we did not
foresee that something else would come to rely on the links to be
relative rather than absolute. Now that this is the case, we can simply
use relative links everywhere (including in these News posts) and write
out the complete URLs when preparing the plain text content for the
mailing lists.
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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org