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Michael Smethurst
Personal blog · smethur.stwebdata
Michael Smethurst writes Smethurst, a personal blog at smethur.st about web and data. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Smethurst's posts on URL design, especially 'Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes', as a reference on balancing clean, user-friendly URLs with persistent ones.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog by Michael Smethurst
Most-linked posts?
- Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-25
What Hacker News says?
This is a recommended read on the subject "Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes" https://smethur.st/posts/176135860 . Clean user friendly urls are often at odds with persistent urls because of the information you can't keep in a url for it to be truly persistent.
Comment linking /posts/176135860
on “Cool URIs don't change (1998)”Submitted Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes as a story · 115 points
HN discussionPerhaps he's referring to something along the lines of URLs potentially being hidden in upcoming browser updates: >"So [for the] love of god Google, if only to save me from another meeting conversation about this[,] please hide the URL behind a click in Chrome. And hope the marketeers start to think that covering the world in URLs makes as much sense as covering it in ISBNs or catalogue numbers or Amazon product IDs…
Comment linking /posts/176135843
on “Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes”Submitted Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaking the HN URLs more human readable would also make them much longer. However, the longer URLs could provide a form of site structure if the URLs are 'editable' e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/2016/05/25/regressive-web-apps Then, if you edit the URL, you can get all stories for today: https://news.ycombinator.com/2016/05/25/ All stories for the month (which would require pagination): https://news.ycombinator.co…
Comment linking /posts/176135860
on “Regressive Web Apps”Submitted A plea for the word service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data ghosts in the Facebook machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
