[Issue 14045] Redo the forums entry page and links

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14045

--- Comment #7 from Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Andrei Alexandrescu from comment #6)
> (In reply to Vladimir Panteleev from comment #5)
> > OK, I realize we can bikeshed about this ad infinitum, but two pertinent
> > questions I could go either way with:
> > 
> > 1. Do we want short URLs, or human-readable URLs?
> > 
> > E.g. forum.dlang.org/t/aZ09 
> > vs.  forum.dlang.org/thread/aZ09/d-2.345-released
> 
> The hierarchy would be human readable and short is better than human
> readable is better than short is better than others.

Well, yes, but ultimately you have to pick a balance between length, how much
information the URL carries, and how predictable the URL structure is.

For example, reddit and StackOverflow both use long, non-ambiguous URLs with
optional short URLs available on request. (We could add optional short URLs
too.)

> > 2. Should the group name be present in all URLs?
> > 
> > E.g. forum.dlang.org/g/announce/t/aZ09/d-2.345-released
> > vs.  forum.dlang.org/t/aZ09/d-2.345-released
> 
> I think it should. BTW you don't really need "g" to say "this is a group".
> Just use forum.dlang.org/announce and use some other convention for
> everything that's not a group, e.g. forum.dlang.org/_/whatevs. Those will be
> rarely used.

Can't do that because existing links must be kept working. Moving to another
domain name would solve that, but not worth the hassle and SEO drop.

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