Posterous and URLs
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Posterous and URLs
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Re: Posterous and URLs
#2yea amen to that
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#3I also find annoying that Posterous, for some reason, appends numeric suffixes arbitrarily to certain post slugs (for example: http://blog.pablohoffman.com/hi-posterous-58). It's like they have to make the post slug "globally unique", instead of "unique per blog", although they shouldn't have to.
It wouldn't be that bad if you could change the slug/url but, as the article correctly points out, you can't.
Re: Posterous and URLs
#4This is great feedback. We hope to get this in soon. Thanks very much for the support and suggestions.
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#5I also find annoying that Posterous, for some reason, appends numeric suffixes arbitrarily to certain post slugs (for example: http://blog.pablohoffman.com/hi-posterous-58 ). It's like they have to make the post slug "globally unique", instead of "unique per blog", although they shouldn't have to. It wouldn't be that bad if you could change the slug/url but, as the article correctly points out, you can't.
Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs. It's in one of their FAQs. That's probably why there are doing it (to help with seo on Google).
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#6This is one of those "mom do I haaaaave to????" pieces of functionality that engineers (I say this as an engineer-type) hate.
I would procrastinate for weeks before implementing something like this. It's boring, complex, and affects a tiny minority of users.
However to engineers like me, we have to remember that even though the number of end-users might be small, in this case they are inherently more valuable than the average user. They bring a cache of readers with them and if they like the user experience, can potentially evangelize the product for you more effectively than someone starting a blog from scratch can.
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#7I also find annoying that Posterous, for some reason, appends numeric suffixes arbitrarily to certain post slugs (for example: http://blog.pablohoffman.com/hi-posterous-58 ). It's like they have to make the post slug "globally unique", instead of "unique per blog", although they shouldn't have to. It wouldn't be that bad if you could change the slug/url but, as the article correctly points out, you can't.
Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs. It's in one of their FAQs. That's probably why there are doing it (to help with seo on Google).
"Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs."
I think you're mistaken.
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#8I also find annoying that Posterous, for some reason, appends numeric suffixes arbitrarily to certain post slugs (for example: http://blog.pablohoffman.com/hi-posterous-58 ). It's like they have to make the post slug "globally unique", instead of "unique per blog", although they shouldn't have to. It wouldn't be that bad if you could change the slug/url but, as the article correctly points out, you can't.
This is indeed a namespace thing, every posterous blog uses the same global namespace. They said this will be changed.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs. It's in one of their FAQs. That's probably why there are doing it (to help with seo on Google).
"Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs." I think you're mistaken.
I think that used to be a requirement for Google News inclusion, but I heard they dropped it.
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#10This is one of those "mom do I haaaaave to????" pieces of functionality that engineers (I say this as an engineer-type) hate. I would procrastinate for weeks before implementing something like this. It's boring, complex, and affects a tiny minority of users. However to engineers like me, we have to remember that even though the number of end-users might be small, in this case they are inherently more valuable than th…
As an engineer, I don't think preserving URLs is a minor issue.