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The URL slug says "landfill", too. The title was probably changed by the publication after it was published.

Scoundreller 5y ago
The URL slug is fun. You can put whatever you want before and after the number and it redirects back to the original URL: For example this link redirects back to the OP's URL https://theweek.com/trump/murder/1001964/miami https://theweek.com/trump/murder/1001964/miami I always find CMSs lazy hacks for a clean URL fascinating.
- toast0 5y ago
  I've built these... The basic idea is you've got some canonical url that you'd love to have links to, but people (and tools) love to mess everything up, so whatever comes in, as long as it's got the number, gets 302'd to the right place and call it a day. I personally put the number as close to the domain as I can get away with, because the farther away it is, the more likely it is to be truncated, and I don't care how nice the partial URL looks, if it's missing the number, I can't get your content. And no, I'm not building it for just slugs no numbers, because I've seen what happens to those.
  - tialaramex 5y ago
    > And no, I'm not building it for just slugs no numbers, because I've seen what happens to those. There was some poor site owner seeking assistance on the Let's Encrypt community site because (of course) even though they swear they haven't changed anything now mysteriously Let's Encrypt stopped working and so it must be a bug in Let's Encrypt. They're using http-01, so the magic files need to be exposed from a /.well-known/ directory and others have got them to try a test file named "test". When you ask for the test file though, what you get is a 30x redirect to some unrelated blog post. Well, it looks unrelated at first, and then what I realise is, that post is about Testimonials. Sure enough when I ask for a file named 'chris' instead I get redirected to a blog post about Christmas... I don't think that user ever figured out what their problem actually was, it's a little frustrating but you have to let them go do their thing.
- wumpus 5y ago
  I always thought it was to improve SEO in the face of headline rewrites?

The URL slug is fun. You can put whatever you want before and after the number and it redirects back to the original URL: For example this link redirects back to the OP's URL https://theweek.com/trump/murder/1001964/miami https://theweek.com/trump/murder/1001964/miami I always find CMSs lazy hacks for a clean URL fascinating.

toast0 5y ago
I've built these... The basic idea is you've got some canonical url that you'd love to have links to, but people (and tools) love to mess everything up, so whatever comes in, as long as it's got the number, gets 302'd to the right place and call it a day. I personally put the number as close to the domain as I can get away with, because the farther away it is, the more likely it is to be truncated, and I don't care how nice the partial URL looks, if it's missing the number, I can't get your content. And no, I'm not building it for just slugs no numbers, because I've seen what happens to those.
- tialaramex 5y ago
  > And no, I'm not building it for just slugs no numbers, because I've seen what happens to those. There was some poor site owner seeking assistance on the Let's Encrypt community site because (of course) even though they swear they haven't changed anything now mysteriously Let's Encrypt stopped working and so it must be a bug in Let's Encrypt. They're using http-01, so the magic files need to be exposed from a /.well-known/ directory and others have got them to try a test file named "test". When you ask for the test file though, what you get is a 30x redirect to some unrelated blog post. Well, it looks unrelated at first, and then what I realise is, that post is about Testimonials. Sure enough when I ask for a file named 'chris' instead I get redirected to a blog post about Christmas... I don't think that user ever figured out what their problem actually was, it's a little frustrating but you have to let them go do their thing.
wumpus 5y ago
I always thought it was to improve SEO in the face of headline rewrites?