Pretty URLs

[damned_colonial]

Title:
Pretty URLs

Area:
entries

Summary:
Generate a pretty URL for each entry in a journal, so that instead of:

http://some-journal.dreamwidth.org/12345.html

you see:

http://some-journal.dreamwidth.org/2010/07/15/five-things-make-a-post

Description:
The generated URL should include the date in YYYY/MM/DD format, and a simplified version of the post's subject line. If two posts with the same subject happen in one day, just add "2" to the end of the second one (and increment as necessary).

The original numeric URLs should keep working so that links don't break, but should rewrite to the pretty ones.

This will provide context in all kinds of handy situations, eg. when someone pastes a URL to you or when you hover over a link, you can see what's likely to be at the other end of it.

Poll #3836 Pretty URLs

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 90

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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (32.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
22 (24.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
31 (34.4%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (8.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[melannen]

Ah! That makes much sense. Thank you.

Not a lot of sense, since for a long time you could see the existence of locked entries in the calender views, but lj sense.

(Though paging through my journal with that thought in mind, it looks more like "number-of-last-entry plus a random number between 1 and 256"? )

[denise]

Right, right, plus not times. Sorry!