Re:Ask HN: URL format for blog posts - which format is best?
by mayoi on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @08:04AM
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It doesn't really matter to me that much because it's all useless and too long to remember that I will bookmark everything I care about and give them a proper name handwritten title by myself, but if I had to choose, it would instead look something like the urls in software documentation:
See? You don't even need to open it to know what's going to be there.
Sadly, it's kind of hard to map for arbitrary blog topics so I can't give you a realistic example for how it would work there, but I guess if you made a post about new foreign recipe, it could probably be
> /<country of interest>/<topic of interest>/<object of interest>
> /japan/food/salmon
Your imagination is your only limit and I recommend you stop to think about what is the purpose of spending that much time on it, and you may find what you need.
> https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector
See? You don't even need to open it to know what's going to be there.
Sadly, it's kind of hard to map for arbitrary blog topics so I can't give you a realistic example for how it would work there, but I guess if you made a post about new foreign recipe, it could probably be
> /<country of interest>/<topic of interest>/<object of interest>
> /japan/food/salmon
Your imagination is your only limit and I recommend you stop to think about what is the purpose of spending that much time on it, and you may find what you need.