Note I'm not suggesting to change any existing URLs. Rather my question is, should we go to the date-less schema for new posts going forward.
2018-03-22 13:24 GMT+01:00 Yoann Rodiere <yo...@hibernate.org>: > > The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are > highly associated to a given date. > > A lot of our posts are. Release announcements and weekly newsletters in > particular. > > I personally don't see the problem with dates in URLs. I don't see any > problem with not having them, either. But I do see a problem with changing > the URL scheme: potential dead links, SEO nightmare... We would need a damn > good reason to do it, and I'm not sure those you mentioned are enough... > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 12:29 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.v...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are >> highly associated to a given date. >> >> In our case, the data works against us as people might think an article is >> outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that >> a 3 year-old article might not be relevant anymore. >> >> It's better if we use simple slug names that capture the article focus >> keywords and remove the date altogether. >> >> Vlad >> >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Gunnar Morling <gun...@hibernate.org> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > While talking to a few bloggers from the Java ecosphere at JavaLand last >> > week, the question came up why we have the date in the URL of blog >> posts. >> > >> > Arguably, it doesn't add value there (we show the date on the actual >> posts >> > themselves), and makes the URLs slightly worse to read. In particular, >> we >> > don't allow for browsing posts by year or month (e.g. >> > http://in.relation.to/2018/), so it's even a bit misleading. Omitting >> the >> > date would also make the original idea of the URL fly again ("in >> relation >> > to xyz"). >> > >> > Anyone with thoughts whether we should change the scheme (keeping >> existing >> > ones of course)? >> > >> > That all said, I've no idea whether the date in there is good to have or >> > not in terms of SEO. I suppose it doesn't matter. >> > >> > --Gunnar >> > _______________________________________________ >> > hibernate-dev mailing list >> > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev >> > -- > Yoann Rodiere > yo...@hibernate.org / yrodi...@redhat.com > Software Engineer > Hibernate NoORM team > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
