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Friendly post urls Features (piefed.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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Rather than a format like piefed.social/post/long_number, posts how have a url that includes the community name and title in it.

Like this: https://piefed.social/c/animatedmusicvideos@sh.itjust.works/p/1382987/junior-senior-move-your-feet-official-music-video-hd

This improves readability, helps people differentiate between multiple links in a list and is better for SEO.

The old style of url still works too and there may be occasions when you get taken to a url like https://piefed.social/post/1382987 but we'll be working to remove those over time.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

rimu@piefed.social for what it's worth, we had this discussion a decade ago too.

We ended up being very simplistic and not tying anything to anything else.

So posts are not tied to topics (theoretically you could have a post in multiple topics... we don't do that, but you can)

And topics aren't tied to categories (same deal, and we also don't have topics in multiple categories... yet!!, cross-posting will change that.

So when you have a direct url to a post it's just /post/. A friendly URL uses a post index, but we can do that because we order posts linearly. Piefed doesn't have that advantage unfortunately.

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