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Nice suggestion, but no, it really doesn't "need" clean URLs. The current system works more than adequately and is indexable as well.
by brk 19y ago
Nice 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.