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  • 16-06-2009 12:30pm
    #1
    Draupnir
    Registered Users Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭


    Just a question really, have you ever considered adding clean URL functionality? To explain, it would replace:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=151

    with

    http://www.boards.ie/soccer/

    I have worked on projects in the past where we have implemented this type of thing, but they were .NET solutions, so I'm not sure how achievable it is in PHP based stuff, but I really think this feature would be a big help; particularly to people such as myself who browser using a phone (iPhone) and prefer the full experience to the m.boards.ie experience.

    Thoughts?


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    #2
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    It's already been/being done on a case-by-case basis.

    Try http://soccer.boards.ie for example.


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    #3
    Draupnir
    Registered Users Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Draupnir


    Ah ok, I wasn't talking about subdomains but I guess that will do as an alternative.

    Thanks for the reply.


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    Ross
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭Ross


    The problem is that there are conflicting forum names Soccer -> Soccer for example, or Games -> Games. Also there are extremely long forum names that have to be manually shortened, you'll have people debating on how they should be shortened, etc, there will be a propensity to change titles, alter forum names etc (as there already is), which, if we're not careful about will break search engine references. If an admin decides to be mischievous they can create a forum called vbulletin and break the entire site, or even accidentally name a forum after a subdirectory and break things.

    It just opens up a lot of problems to my mind right now, I don't even like what we're doing currently, because there's no reason why we should just have the top 20 or so forums with subdomain references and not the rest, plus I really, really don't like using subdomains for redirects but I was overruled on it.


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    #5
    Draupnir
    Registered Users Posts: 3,548 ✭✭✭Draupnir


    I agree with you Ross in that I do not like subdomains myself for redirects. I prefer the URL type that I suggested because it creates a hierarchy for your site map and Google finds it very nice for indexing, therefore improving the search results of each forum.

    Can see where you are coming from on the naming conventions though.

    Might be something to look at into the future, if it is implemented globally it can be very helpful for creating menu's and forum lists from the DB nice and easily.


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    #6
    Ross
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭Ross


    Yes, I'd really like to put together a really nice, comprehensive URL mapping scheme for Boards.ie at some point, it might even solve some tertiary architectural issues.

    Will certainly be revisiting this at some point, cheers for the input.


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    #7
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Would it be possible to rewrite thread ids?


    http://boards.ie/60724048

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=60724048


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Jonathan wrote: »
    Would it be possible to rewrite thread ids?


    http://boards.ie/60724048

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=60724048
    Not much benefit to it though.


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    #9
    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    Does this mean the Cake and Pie forum can't use [NOPARSE]pie.boards.ie[/NOPARSE]

    And that After Hours can't use [NOPARSE]muppet.boards.ie[/NOPARSE]

    www-srv-3.boards.ie -> can't think of a joke for this.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Ron DMC wrote: »
    Does this mean the Cake and Pie forum can't use http://pie.boards.ie

    And that After Hours can't use http://muppet.boards.ie

    www-srv-3.boards.ie -> can't think of a joke for this.

    All jokes aside, the first two both resolve to the load balancer and the last one encourages you (with a 301) to go to the load balancer. While it has been historically possible to use some of our web servers directly we don't guarantee that will remain the case.

    Just so ye all know.


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    #11
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    Not much benefit to it though.
    Much shorter links for twitter and the sort.


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    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,916 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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    #13
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Are you asking how it works or why?

    How: wildcard DNS records
    Why: Dunno, that decision wasn't mine.


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    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,916 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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    #15
    mandaiben
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭mandaiben


    Jonathan wrote: »
    Would it be possible to rewrite thread ids?


    http://boards.ie/60724048

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=60724048

    Apparently there was a solution for this discussed before (link) but that thread seems to have died abruptly.


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    #16
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    I like the shortended links you get for Adverts. It's tidy, I like some neatness.


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    #17
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Jonathan wrote: »
    Much shorter links for twitter and the sort.
    Most of which will use bit.ly, tinyurl or url.ie or short.ie anyway.


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    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    Most of which will use bit.ly, tinyurl or url.ie or short.ie anyway.
    Well with the length of boards urls at the moment, they are nearly 140 chars already. But if boards did their bit and shortened the url, then i guess i could spare a few characters in the name of supporting boards by url name dropping.


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