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Piefed finally fixes Lemmy’s ugly post URLs (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago

At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

See the 1.0 milestone for lemmy and lemmy-ui . you can see both what they intend to do and what they already did.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Who cares about URL legibility in 2025? 😂 Aren't you guys busy making like 7 different apps where URLs are even less visible?

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    • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I like shorter URLs 🤷

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    [+] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Nobody really sees URLs anymore, they are always behind links, so making them more readable has basically no effect.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    It worked in Boost, but on Lemmy UI it doesn't linkify the whole thing

    You would think markdown would work, but no, these somehow have the same issue:

    https://piefed.social/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls

    https://piefed.social/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    That does work! What about if it's a remote community? Does it just use the post ID number to determine what instance it's actually from?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The only part of the url that actually does anything is p/1385905 which functions the same way piefed.social/post/1385905 does. So that /c/politics bit has no effect on which post is displayed and it could be any string of gibberish. There are communities called 'politics' on many instances and this url scheme doesn't differentiate between them, but I'm ok with that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    @sjmarf@lemmy.ml @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml I get the following error when clicking this link in Mlem:

    Optional(No entity returned in response.)
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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's still helpful for messages. The social share/thumbnail isn't always available

    A user is more likely to click on

    https://unfamiliar.site/c/cats/192837/my-cat-napping-in-the-sun

    compared to

    https://unfamiliar.site/post/192837

    I'm not saying that this should take priority over all the other things the developers are doing, but I'd still like to see it implemented at some point

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Most places that matter (popular chat apps, text apps, social media) use Open Graph protocol to provide a preview of the link that's been sent. I don't see the issue here. Its on the site operator to implement Open Graph and it works fine on Lemmy.

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