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Include (preview of) content in idea URLs: '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.

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

Criticism of #1775Criticized1

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

Criticism of #1765

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

Criticism of #1775Criticized2

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

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

Criticism of #1771

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

Criticism of #1769

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

Criticism of #1769

Done as of fcf578c.

Criticism of #1775