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Friendly post urls (piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago by rimu@piefed.social 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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[–] fu@libranet.de 5 points 2 months ago

@rimu this is awesome!

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Cool tweak!

[–] kunegis@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks so much, this is also one of the things that annoys me on Lemmy

[–] CyberSage@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Nice, appreciate it!

BTW hashtags look messy and spammy as if shouting for attention. Tags organize content quietly and work better for reach and discovery.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Awesome! The post ID is still instance-specific and not community-specific, right? Asking because community-specific would make it very easy to view it from a different instance, but I can imagine that's complicated.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, still instance-specific.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Great !