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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.
That would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.
Could have backwards compatibility for the short version and continue using the hashtag in the UI. Best of both worlds?
That would mean fetching an idea to compute the path for each hashtag. Overhead?
Seems like minor overhead. It’s not like there are tons of user-generated hashtags everywhere.
This actually helps to prevent rendering links with IDs that don’t point to any existing idea.
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.