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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.
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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Rather than a format like piefed.social/post/long_number, posts how have a url that includes the community name and title in it.
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.
@rimu this is awesome! -
Rather than a format like piefed.social/post/long_number, posts how have a url that includes the community name and title in it.
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.
@rimu It can be any community name and title though
E.g., https://piefed.social/c/anything/p/1382987/anything resolves to the same content as your original link.
That feels like a risk - you could give someone a URL that looks like it's for one community/title, but goes to a completely different one.
Trivial example - https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/1220635/friendly-post-urls - looks trustworthy, but is completely different. That could be NSFW content, and you won't know until you click.
It isn't NSFW, you can trust me.
Or can you...?
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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.
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.
Cool tweak!
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@rimu It can be any community name and title though
E.g., https://piefed.social/c/anything/p/1382987/anything resolves to the same content as your original link.
That feels like a risk - you could give someone a URL that looks like it's for one community/title, but goes to a completely different one.
Trivial example - https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/1220635/friendly-post-urls - looks trustworthy, but is completely different. That could be NSFW content, and you won't know until you click.
It isn't NSFW, you can trust me.
Or can you...?
Yes, the /p/number bit is the only functional part of the url. I'll make it check for tampering!
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Yes, the /p/number bit is the only functional part of the url. I'll make it check for tampering!
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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rimu@piefed.social when the question is federated outward, is it of type of question? 😛
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@julian @rimu @dessalines @nutomic we could have it in Lemmy as well ❤️
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@julian hahahahaha
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Imagine Stack Overflow, but you have some probability of not seeing the top answer. That's pretty much what happens with federated instances blocking each other. I wouldn't use that.
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What's the secret to Rimu's speed? Piefed is young, so any accumulated technical debt doesn't interfere with new functionality...
Yet...
Sorry rimu@piefed.social, that time will come for you 😂
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Oh, a * peek * at piefed. I thought it was going to be some doom and gloom about user count peaking. It’s actually just an introspective.
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Paige and Victor get into the weeds with Rimu the creator of Piefed. What is the secret to Piefed's rapid development and what direction is is Piefed rapidly developing?
Find Rimu: [@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz) (https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@rimu) @rimu@piefed.social
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Find Paige: @paige@canadiancivil.com
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Why bother posting solutions if no one's going to read them because they are undiscoverable
