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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

That would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Could have backwards compatibility for the short version and continue using the hashtag in the UI. Best of both worlds?

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

That would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?

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Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 days ago·#1771·· Collapse

Fetching the idea is not necessary if the feature is backwards compatible. Can still just use /ideas/123.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

As noted in #1777, fetching the idea actually helps. Well worth the overhead.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Seems like minor overhead. It’s not like there are tons of user-generated hashtags everywhere.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

This actually helps to prevent rendering links with IDs that don’t point to any existing idea.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

Wouldn’t even need friendly ID for that since the URL would contain the ID. Would only need to override to_param to concatenate the idea’s ID and content.

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Superseded by #1775. This comment was generated automatically.

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