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[wwwtyro]

I can't begin to fathom a motivation for that. Can anyone think of a reason, or is this likely simply a mistake?

[criswell → wwwtyro]

The site doesn't even seem close to being useful or complete yet. I think it's intentional.

[acdha → wwwtyro]

They didn't want search traffic until the content and structure start to stabilize? Google, et al. will crawl for years after a URL 404s so it might make sense to hold off until the first round of stabilization

[desbest → wwwtyro]

Maybe someone from Facebook made the robots.txt file, ayyy!

[thenonsequitur → wwwtyro]

The site was in super-alpha. I think it was intentional.