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Re:Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs by detaro on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:02PM (#15493795)
and your comment is the perfect demonstration why: when truncated, the id gets cut off before the slug.
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Re:Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:45PM (#15494221)
Which is... something you don't want to happen, right?
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Re:Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs by StavrosK on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:33PM (#15495833)
To be fair, if you truncate a url for anything other than display, it's toast (which is why no sane person truncates URLs except for display).
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Re:Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs by detaro on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:49PM (#15494255)
Right, I was thinking purely display truncation, like here. Surviving copy-paste from here or other actual truncation it's bad, true.
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