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> Essentially all of the arguments for making URLs more brittle (which is what you are doing by adding human readable text) Not if done right, like e.g. stack
by shawabawa3 7y ago
> Essentially all of the arguments for making URLs more brittle (which is what you are doing by adding human readable text)
Not if done right, like e.g. stack overflow, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517355/string-formatting-in-python https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517355/string-formatting...
The human readable text is actually meaningless, and anything after the id will redirect there, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517355/this-could-be-anything https://stackoverflow.com/questions/517355/this-could-be-any...
- saurik 7y agoThis technique (which I almost commented on in my original comment, but didn't) is brittle in a different way (making it so that attempts to search for the URL have no well-known canonical representation), and quite simply totally undermines the entire argument being made (which is why I didn't comment on it) that someone can use the slug of a URL to decide whether or not they want to click on the content: you can change the URL to say anything you want. At this point, there is no value in bothering with having done this: it is just extra text in the URL for no concrete benefit. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/148454/why-does-stack-overflow-use-title-slugs/