RE: 👨💻 #Proposal-86: SEO Improvements
As you guessed, I'm tentatively in favor of #2, but (there's always a "but") that creates the minor challenge that it creates an inconsistency for people who like to manipulate the URL directly. i.e. https://steemit.com/trending/hive-151113 is not the same as https://steemit.com/trending/steem-dev. So, best practice probably becomes "Include the community name as your first tag". Which means that in practice the two options may be almost equivalent. Still, I think the link's SEO value should be controlled and standardized by the community owner/admin/moderator, not the author.
In the longer term, I think that entirely replacing the hive-###### in the direct link to the community with the community name or a piece of community-specific metadata is probably still better. I don't think that can be done in condenser, alone, though(?).
🔎 The Downside of Option 3
Shouldn't this be "the downside of option 2" with a fallback to option 3?
I'm not sure. It's possible that the back-end could still store the hive-xxxxxx as the community identifier, but the front end could create a friendly URL that could then be "parsed" to call the correct data from the database.
It feels very messy though. Options 2 and 3 are much simpler.
It should, thanks for highlighting. I've updated the post.
Another complexity with using community names... I'm not sure, but I don't think that they're guaranteed to be unique. Which means that posts from two different communities could wind up being labeled with the same string... Maybe not a problem, I guess, since there's not really a tree structure - but it's counterintuitive.
That's not a problem since that part of the URL doesn't impace what content gets loaded.
It would even make sense. If 2 communities are doing the same thing, it makes sense that the first hashtag is the same (which is essentially what we're discussing as an abstractoin).
Ideally, communities work together but we've seen with some Country based communities in particular, that there's a divide and they won't work together.
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