Comment on In search of the perfect URLComments−adventured10yI find it interesting the author mentions making an effort to remove the numeric ID from the URL.I love using numeric IDs in the URL, for one specific reason: perma-short-link.http://qz.com/365810/whats-missing-from-this-13-year-old-gir...Becomes:http://qz.com/365810Which then redirects to the proper full url. Total effort: almost nil.−userbinator10yNot only numeric but alphanumeric IDs; they also work as a nice shorthand in communication. I've seen plenty of people referring to e.g. "video jI3i9Lq4BcX on YouTube" on sites which would otherwise censor actual URLs.
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I find it interesting the author mentions making an effort to remove the numeric ID from the URL.
I love using numeric IDs in the URL, for one specific reason: perma-short-link.
http://qz.com/365810/whats-missing-from-this-13-year-old-gir...
Becomes:
http://qz.com/365810
Which then redirects to the proper full url. Total effort: almost nil.
Not only numeric but alphanumeric IDs; they also work as a nice shorthand in communication. I've seen plenty of people referring to e.g. "video jI3i9Lq4BcX on YouTube" on sites which would otherwise censor actual URLs.