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Tom Lehman here (Rap Genius co-founder) The fact that all our text and song page URLs end in "-lyrics" is a relic of a time when we hosted almost exclusively l
by tomlemon 13y ago
Tom Lehman here (Rap Genius co-founder)
The fact that all our text and song page URLs end in "-lyrics" is a relic of a time when we hosted almost exclusively lyrics.
Making the changes required to host all kinds of annotated texts has been a big project and making the URLs make sense is something we haven't gotten around to.
The reason it's not a totally trivial change is that both users and texts share the same top-level namespaces, and so right now we use the "-lyrics" suffix to differentiate song and text pages from user profile pages.
We want to change the suffix to "-annotated" for non-music pages and will hopefully get around to in the next few weeks. To our knowledge the existing situation doesn't help with SEO (no one is searching "bartleby the scrivener lyrics"), and it's confusing, so we 100% agree that the current situation is bad.
For more info on the "Worse is Better" philosophy that caused the current jank situation to persist for so long, see this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45YY97FmL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45YY97FmL4