People want to find a way to continue showing the path portion of the URL, but this is really undesirable. The URL's path should contain no information, beyond

People want to find a way to continue showing the path portion of the URL, but this is really undesirable. The URL's path should contain no information, beyond its role in making up the unique identifier of course; it's a virtual guarantee of link-breakage in the future https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=7679423 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=7679423 . Making it invisible will help to ensure that people stop putting information in it. User-friendly document names and tree-structured site guides are all well and good; they just don't belong in the URL. The query string, on the other hand, should probably remain visible.