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Tell YC: "Hacker News" needs clean profile URLs
I would personally like to link to my YCombinator profile via:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user/{username}
Do you guys agree this would be valuable?
- alaskamiller 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonallanharper http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonallanharper isn't clean enough?
- jonallanharper 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/user/jonallanharper http://news.ycombinator.com/user/jonallanharper is more valuable from a search engine perspective, I think.
- alaskamiller 19y agothat's to assume pg wants search traffic semantic urls are nifty but not that nifty
- jonallanharper 19y agoHe wants people to take pride in their comments/submissions. Knowing your info is easily searchable by your handle influences you to create more valuable content.
- alaskamiller 19y agofor what it's worth, my HN profile pops up within the top 5 google search results
- jonallanharper 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/user/ http://news.ycombinator.com/user/{username}.{rss|atom|json} ... would be elegant though, IMO.
- alaskamiller 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alaskamiller http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alaskamiller
- sanswork 19y agoDoes this still hold true? I know in the past search engines ignored stuff after the ? but is this still the case? Google certainly doesn't anymore.
- brk 19y agoNice suggestion, but no, it really doesn't "need" clean URLs. The current system works more than adequately and is indexable as well.
- LogicHoleFlaw 19y agoPersonally I'm just kind of allergic to question marks.
- ssharp 19y agoIt's not like it's some massive, bold undertaking. It's one line in an htaccess file.
- bootload 19y ago"... The current system works more than adequately and is indexable as well. ..." And is subject to breakage & link rot if any of the link structure changes. This happened when the "comments" term was replaced by "item" a long way back. So all the links I collected failed until I checked them. For instance try: - http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=3754 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=3754 (FAIL) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754 (OK) Clean URI's are cool. They last a long time and just work ~ http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI These URI's smell funny. Having said that it doesn't really effect the running of the site, indexing or searching and require coding changes. But it will bite you at some time in the future. I mentioned these type of things a while ago ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3671 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3671 so I don' think anything is going to change soon.