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Fri, 17 June 2011 05:54

dandv

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I've been comparing dozens of forum software packages from forummatrix.org, and keep seeing the same old, antiquated patern over and over:

The URLs look like crap.

In FUDForum's case, "http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=6156&start=0&" - what does that tell you? How about http://fudoforum.org/suggestions/joomla-mambo-cms-integration instead?

I read the wiki entry on that, and the best URLs you can get are still completely opaque to the user.

In contrast, high-profile sites like reddit or Slashdot have human-readable URLs:

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/hnhsv/til_about_seasteading_ the_concept_of_creating

http://yro.slashdot.org/submission/1392280/Emergency-Broadcast-System-Comin g-to-Cell-Phones

The URLs are human-friendly in that they contain the name of the topic. They also have a unique ID in them, which avoids any duplicate title problems (let alone that duplicate topics should be avoided by a feature that automatically searches for threads with a similar title, as uservoice does).

[Updated on: Tue, 28 June 2011 01:03]

		Human-friendly/readable URLs By: dandv on Fri, 17 June 2011 05:54
		Re: Human-friendly/readable URLs By: Dayo on Fri, 17 June 2011 06:45
		Re: Human-friendly/readable URLs By: Ernesto on Mon, 20 June 2011 03:18
		Re: Human-friendly/readable URLs By: naudefj on Mon, 20 June 2011 11:09
		Re: Human-friendly/readable URLs By: Atomicrun on Thu, 28 July 2011 11:49
		Re: Human-friendly/readable URLs By: naudefj on Fri, 29 July 2011 08:33
		Re: Human-friendly/readable URLs By: James Lewis on Tue, 02 August 2011 04:38
		Re: Human-friendly/readable URLs By: Anik on Thu, 01 September 2011 19:09

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