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Yes, imagine if the browser vendors decided to _improve the usability of the URL bar_ instead of trying to remove it... The only difference between Example.

Yes, imagine if the browser vendors decided to _improve the usability of the URL bar_ instead of trying to remove it... The only difference between Example.com > Worldnews > 2020 > 06 > 14 > Big aquatic monster spotted outside Tokyo forum.example.com > Sport > Football > Spain > Real Madrid and https://example.com/worldnews/2020/06/14/big-aquatic-monster-spotted-outside-tokyo https://forum.example.com/sport/football/spain/real-madrid is a little bit of reformatting and upcasing and linkifying (or otherwise making selectable) the individual path segments of the URL. And probably some clever logic to deal with the randomforum.php?fid=12345&tpcid=984.3&page=5 goop that is still all-too-common... :/

Mirioron 6y ago
>And probably some clever logic to deal with the randomforum.php?fid=12345&tpcid=984.3&page=5 goop that is still all-too-common... :/ You say that as though websites like that are random small sites. HN has that kind of a URL, so do YouTube and Google.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  Hacker News doesn't have breadcrumbs either. The concept of a directory hierarchy inherently doesn't fit. You could try to map the parent ==> child relationship of every individual post URL, which might be cool, but think about how long the URLs would get. For sites with breadcrumbs though, the URL absolutely should follow the crumbs (and I've argued for such at my company).