Remove ID from discussion slug

wylzn

My proposal is simple, remove the ID from the discussion slug, for example: example.com/d/1-example-post would become example.com/d/example-post

wylzn

I understand from a test, that this would break posts with the same title, so i propose the original post has the slug example.com/d/example-post and every other post would have example.com/d/example-post-2 so on and so forth

clarkwinkelmann

I don't think such an extension exists at this time, but it's relatively simple to implement through Flarum's model slugger mechanism. Most of the challenge is to decide on / offer a choice for the suffixing logic, whether to re-use slugs when a discussion is deleted, whether to allow moderators to modify the slug. Also if the title of the discussion gets edited, should the slug change and if it does, additional logic will be required to redirect the old URLs to the new ones. That's a lot of additional complexity that the ID-based solution doesn't need.

There was this now-abandoned extension that I created a while back that allowed setting such a slug, but only manually, as the goal was to create pretty URLs for specific discussions https://discuss.flarum.org/d/25993-manual-discussion-slug

wylzn

clarkwinkelmann my original proposal was it to work like the original id system, except having the ID on the backend of the URL (example.com/d/example-post-2) and the first discussion with that slug (example.com/d/example-post-1) would become example.com/d/example-post